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URL handler

What's this?

zsh widget and functions extened from widget introducted in Crouton's diary(japanese). You can enter URL directly in console, and browse or download it.

Features

• prompt browse or download
• auto download when URL has some specific suffix
• auto select browse or download
• Can handle FTP (and other...)

Sample Usage

Browse URL simply

sugi@tempest:~% http://shlashdot.jp/ [Enter]

Type URL and Hit [Enter]...

sugi@tempest:~% _resolv_url http://shlashdot.jp/
Browse or Download this URL? [B/d] [Enter]

Prompt displayed. choice one. ([Enter] for upper case letter)

sugi@tempest:~% _resolv_url http://shlashdot.jp/
Browse or Download this URL? [B/d] 
sugi@tempest:~% Message: Galeon already running, using existing process

URL has been sended to galeon.

Auto dwonload when URL has some suffix

sugi@tempest:~% http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/b/base-files/base-files_3.0.2_i386.deb Enter]
Browse or Download this URL? [b/D] [Enter]
--09:12:55--  http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/b/base-files/base-files_3.0.2_i386.deb
           => `base-files_3.0.2_i386.deb'
Resolving ftp.us.debian.org... done.
Connecting to ftp.us.debian.org[35.9.37.225]:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 30,956 [application/x-debian-package]

100%[====================================>] 30,956        55.17K/s    ETA 00:00

09:12:56 (55.17 KB/s) - `base-files_3.0.2_i386.deb' saved [30956/30956]

Install and minimal setting

1. download and extract file
2. copy functions/* to directory specified as fpath
3. add following setting to ~/.zshrc

   if autoload +X -U _accept_line_with_url > /dev/null 2>&1; then
       zle -N accept-line-with-url _accept_line_with_url
       bindkey '^M' accept-line-with-url
       bindkey '^J' accept-line-with-url
   fi
   

Customise

WWW_BROWSER (env)

your browser (defualt: www-browser). "%s" will replace to URL. ex: export WWW_BROWSER="netscape-remote %s"

DOWNLOADER (env)

your downloader (default: wget). ex: export DOWNLOADER="wget -nv"

browse_or_download_method (shell var)

following value affected.

"ask" or empty

ask method every time (default)

"auto"

auto select default method

"download" or "browse"

always so

ex: browse_or_download_method="auto"

Configuration sample

• ~/.zshrc

  if [ -d ~/lib/zsh/functions ]; then
      fpath=(~/lib/zsh/functions $fpath)
  fi
  ......(snip).......
  if autoload +X -U _accept_line_with_url > /dev/null 2>&1; then
      zle -N accept-line-with-url _accept_line_with_url
      bindkey '^M' accept-line-with-url
      bindkey '^J' accept-line-with-url
  fi
  

• ~/.zshenv

  if [[ -z "$DISPLAY" ]]; then
    export WWW_BROWSER="w3m"
  else
    export WWW_BROWSER="galeon -n %s &!"
  fi
  export DOWNLOADER="wget -S"
  

Download

• accept-line-with-url-0.2.tar.gz