Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 00:11:30 +0400 (MSD) From: .@babolo.ru To: stuyman@confusion.net (Laurence Berland) Cc: keith.stevenson@louisville.edu, bicknell@ufp.org, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Should URL's be pervasive. Message-ID: <200108302011.AAA10805@aaz.links.ru> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96.1010830084803.23544A-100000@euphoria.confusion.net> from "Laurence Berland" at "Aug 30, 1 08:49:04 am"
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Laurence Berland writes: > 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... It is possible if interfaces of utilities is fully standartized. For example -p flag in any command means port number. Such as mutt -l user -h host.domain as legal alternative of mutt user@host.domain > 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 > -- @BABOLO http://links.ru/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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