I've tried Łukasz Michalik's suggestion---it does what I want, without prompts.
I looked at content_handlers before, and couldn't see anything there to help
me. I had hoped there would be a content_handler_save function that accepted a
default save location. I guess learning some more javascript would be helpful!
--- On Tue, 6/1/10, John J. Foerch <jjfoe...@earthlink.net> wrote:
> From: John J. Foerch <jjfoe...@earthlink.net>
> Subject: Re: [Conkeror] Set default save location based on mime type?
> To: conkeror@mozdev.org
> Date: Tuesday, June 1, 2010, 5:14 AM
> On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 12:02:34PM
> +0200, Łukasz Michalik wrote:
> > On 00:13 2010-06-01 -0700, andrew mcintosh wrote:
> > > Is there some way to set the default save
> location of a file based on the mime type?
> > >
> > > For example, I'd like to save all my .torrent
> files automatically to ~/rtorrent/tracker.
> > >
> >
> > What I am doing, and what is probably overcomplicated,
> but should work
> > for you too. First setting external handler for
> that mime in
> > .conkerorrc:
> >
> >
> external_content_handlers.set("application/x-bittorrent",
> "torrent-launcher");
> > content_handlers.set("application/x-bittorrent",
> content_handler_open_default_viewer);
> >
> > Whereas torrent-launcher is an executable script in
> PATH which does
> > what it supposed to do on a given host. For
> simple case as yours it
> > would probably suffice to put
> >
> > #!/bin/sh
> > mv "$1" ~/rtorrent/tracker
> >
> > in it.
>
>
> Another way would be to override the function
> suggest_save_path_from_file_name with one that sets the
> directory based on
> the file extension passed to it. If you did this, you
> would still be
> prompted for a filename to save to, but its default
> location would be the
> one you want.
>
> ///// untested code:
> function suggest_save_path_from_file_name (file_name,
> buffer) {
> var file;
> if (/\.torrent$/.test(file_name)) {
> file = get_home_directory();
>
> file.appendRelativePath("rtorrent/tracker");
> } else {
> file =
> with_current_buffer(buffer, function (I) I.local.cwd)
> .clone();
> }
> file.append(file_name);
> return file.path;
> }
>
>
> To get even more automation, for instance if you wanted to
> eliminate
> prompts altogether, you could use content handlers.
> See
> http://conkeror.org/ContentHandlers for that.
>
> --
> John Foerch
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