From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Aug 30 8:17:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from erouter0.it-datacntr.louisville.edu (erouter0.it-datacntr.louisville.edu [136.165.1.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD8E337B405 for ; Thu, 30 Aug 2001 08:17:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from keith.stevenson@louisville.edu) Received: from osaka.louisville.edu (osaka.louisville.edu [136.165.1.114]) by erouter0.it-datacntr.louisville.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2159011FE; Thu, 30 Aug 2001 11:17:14 -0400 (EDT) Received: by osaka.louisville.edu (Postfix, from userid 15) id 2493C18636; Thu, 30 Aug 2001 11:17:08 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 11:17:08 -0400 From: Keith Stevenson To: Leo Bicknell Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Should URL's be pervasive. Message-ID: <20010830111708.A20961@osaka.louisville.edu> References: <20010830111018.A97057@ussenterprise.ufp.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010830111018.A97057@ussenterprise.ufp.org>; from bicknell@ufp.org on Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 11:10:18AM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 11:10:18AM -0400, Leo Bicknell wrote: > > I ran into a pair of all too common annoyances this morning that > got me thinking. Via the magic of cut and paste I ended up with > the following two sorts of command lines: > > mutt mailto:bicknell@ufp.org > traceroute http://www.ufp.org/ > > These of course come from the 'copy link location' available in > most browsers. When pasted into most Unix commands (with the > exception of fetch and lynx, of course) the result is something > that just doesn't work. This got me thinking, should all commands > know how to take an URL, and 'do the right thing'? Could this > be made easy by providing a standard URL parsing library that > all commands could use for parsing? Ick. If I wanted this kind of integration I would run Windows, KDE, or GNOME instead of my nice, stable, predictable, lightweight desktop environment. In my opinion, the "URLification" of the user environment would be a negative unless there were a very easy way to turn it completely off. Regards, --Keith Stevenson-- -- Keith Stevenson System Programmer - Data Center Services - University of Louisville keith.stevenson@louisville.edu GPG key fingerprint = 332D 97F0 6321 F00F 8EE7 2D44 00D8 F384 75BB 89AE To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message