Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 08:49:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Laurence Berland <stuyman@confusion.net> To: Keith Stevenson <keith.stevenson@louisville.edu> Cc: Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Should URL's be pervasive. Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96.1010830084803.23544A-100000@euphoria.confusion.net> In-Reply-To: <20010830111708.A20961@osaka.louisville.edu>
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Optimally, you could write a urlsh or something, and leave everyone else alone. The shell could do substitutions on URLs just like they do on wildcards etc, and the applications would not need to be rewritten, plus you wouldn't add bloat to those of us who don't want this in the system... Laurence On Thu, 30 Aug 2001, Keith Stevenson wrote: > 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 > Laurence Berland http://www.isp.northwestern.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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