On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 10:00:11PM -0500, Adam wrote:
> I'm just wondering about lftp's exact bookmark syntax. I'd like to
> pretty up my bookmark file with some comments, but any extraneous
> characters I add seems to confuse lftp greatly. Is it possible to add
> comments to the lftp bookmark list? Even blank lines seem to confuse it.

The bookmarks file format does not support comments. It consists of two
columns: bookmark name and after a space - the bookmark value.

The comments are not useful there, because the file is constantly
rewritten by lftp.

> If this isn't possible, is it possible to specify a separate bookmark
> file to be loaded when lftp starts? This would also help keep my
> bookmarks better organized.

unfortunately, no.

> The ideal solution to fixing bookmark organizational problems would be
> bookmark grouping. Let me give an hypothetical example:
> 
> Bookmark list:
> group1/site1 URL1
> group1/site2 URL2
> group1/site3 URL3
> group2/site4 URL4
> group2/site5 URL5
> group3/site6 URL6
> site7 URL7
> site8 URL8
> site9 URL9
> 
> Then, if you launch lftp and type: open <TAB>
> you see the following:
> group1/ group2/ group3/ site7 site8 site9
> 
> Then, if you type: open group1/<TAB>
> you see the following:
> group1/site1 group1/site2 group1/site3

I think it is a good idea and worth implementing. It should not be very
hard to modify completion code to display "directories" in bookmark
completion.

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   Alexander.                      | http://www.yars.free.net/~lav/  

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