Re: [dev] [surf] patches: configurable file locations, bookmark writer, history writer

You already can read surfs url by using xprop. This can be used to
write a bookmark managing system. I'm thinking about adding the first
patch but I'm not sure about the to others.

regards
Gottox

2009/9/9 pancake <pancake_AT_youterm.com>:
> Why not spawn a process instead of appending the URL to a file.. Sthg like
> .cmd="echo '%s' >> bookmarks"
>
> But i have the feeling that URL and title will be better accesible from the
> environment instead of formatstring.
>
> In this way I will be able to spawn another surf opening the location of
> delicious with the URL as argument,
>
> Another use case would be to generate a tinyurl by calling curl+grep and put
> it in the clipboard.
>
> About dmenu...will be nice if it can handle also the title of the urls so
> the autocompletion would be better.
>
> I have Another patch for surf. But i will describe it instead of attaching
> it. The zoom keys are inverted. Please swap j<=>k  j must be zoom out (less
> size) and k zoom in (up,increase)..
>
> Sent from my iPod
>
> On Sep 9, 2009, at 4:37 AM, Ray Kohler <ataraxia937_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I have 3 patches for surf:
>>
>> config_file_locs: Makes all file and directory locations that surf
>> writes to into config.def.h variables. The other two patches depend on
>> this one.
>>
>> write_bookmarks: Adds a function to append the current URI to a
>> (compile-time-defined) file. Default config binds it to MODKEY+B.
>>
>> write_history: Modifies loadcommit to append the current URI to a
>> (compile-time-defined) file. A config.def.h knob can disable this.
>>
>> The value of the bookmark and history files (for me anyway) is to feed
>> them to dmenu and load them into surf that way.
>>
>> There's no locking when writing the files, so race conditions exist. I
>> figured I'd wait to see how this was solved for the new cookie
>> handling rather than doing my own thing.
>> <config_file_locs.diff>
>> <write_bookmarks.diff>
>> <write_history.diff>
>
>

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