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Subject: Re: [9fans] my web browsing technique
From: "rob pike, esq." <rob@mightycheese.com>
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Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 20:39:00 -0800
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Kind of an old thread, but I like VNC OK and finally broke down and wrote
this plumbing rule:

	# urls to opera on another machine
	type is text
	data matches '(https?|ftp|file|gopher|mailto|news|nntp|telnet|wais|prospero)://[a-zA-Z0-9_@\-]+([.:][a-zA-Z0-9_@\-]+)*/?[a-zA-Z0-9_?,%#~&/\-+=]+([:.][a-zA-Z0-9_?,%#~&/\-+=]+)*'
	plumb to web
	plumb start ssh my-vnc-machine.com 'DISPLAY=:3' opera -newpage ''''$0''''

The quotes around DISPLAY=:3 are to get the assignment past the
plumber; the quotes around $0 get its contents past ssh and into the
destination machine without reevaluation by the shell.

The
	plumb to web
line lets me debug the pattern: just
	cat /mnt/plumb/web
and click on a URL to see what the data matches. (Good trick in general.)

Opera will pop the URL into a running instance of itself if possible
(nice thinking, guys!) and the -newpage option means it will create a
new Opera subwindow rather than overwriting an existing page.  Someone
sends you a list of URLS?  Just right-click on each one in the list
and - voila!  - Opera will go fetch them all for you, each in a
different window.

This rule scratches the itch pretty well.  There well may be a better
pattern for the 'matches' line, but that's not the point.

-rob