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:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 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--
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Keith Stevenson
System Programmer - Data Center Services - University of Louisville
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