Well, first let me say, good! I'm glad that's on the roadmap. Second, going that way is really ambicious. Maybe there's a simpler and faster to reach solution. Maybe you don't have to take the natural language paradigm so far. But you're the programming wizards so I guess you're on top of it.
On Feb 5, 5:11 pm, Fernando Takai <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 athttps://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/...>), > > 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/supeertakaihttp://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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
