Piping commands is a priority (at least for me) - and it's on our roadmap - but, unfortunately, is not an easy thing to do. I think would be good to write, for example: short this with tinyurl and post it on twitter.
Take a look at https://ubiquity.mozilla.com/trac/ticket/255 2009/2/5 psargaco <[email protected]> > > Reading the "The THIS keyword doesnt work" thread (http:// > groups.google.com/group/ubiquity-firefox/browse_thread/thread/ > 1bdc00e30c286001?hl=en#<http://groups.google.com/group/ubiquity-firefox/browse_thread/thread/%0A1bdc00e30c286001?hl=en#>), > it made me think of one of the concepts I > gathered from Ubiquity presentation video back in the day. I can't > exactly put my finger on what was said, or maybe Aza didn't say > anything of the kind, but for me it makes sense for Ubiquity to have > the possibility to concatenate commands. > > For instance, on the thread I mentioned earlier, the original poster > was complaining that he wasn't able to have "this" replaced in the > command "twitter Take a look at this". In reality the solution was as > simple as selecting the intended URL before calling Ubiquity. But, > what if I wanted to send a TinyURL instead of the full blown URL? > Wouldn't that be useful. And there must be loads of other possible > uses of this kind of command concatenation. > > I'm not sure of it could be feasible or even desirable to do this via > parser. But perhaps a pipes-like mechanism could be used. Or something > like a clipboard to store the result from the previous command. > > Example with pipes: > tinyurl this|twitter Take a look at ? // <- ? would be replaced my > the result of the 1st command > > Example with clipboard > command 1: tinyurl this > command 2: twitter What a wonderful idea: clipboard // <- clipboard as > a magic word > > > -- Fernando "Takai" http://flickr.com/photos/supeertakai http://fernandotakai.jaiku.com Get Ubiquity: https://ubiquity.mozilla.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ubiquity-firefox" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/ubiquity-firefox?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
