2009/10/21 Peter John Hartman <peterjohnhart...@gmail.com>: > (1) * removing urlbar/searchbar and using dmenu instead > > I'm not sure if this is so attractive, since dmenu does not support x paste > (without a patch) and one always finds oneself (or at least I do) cutting > and pasting into the searchbar. The ultimate solution, it seems to me, is > to have dmenu support x paste in vanilla. This strikes me as superior to an > "in-surf" solution (which uses GtkWhatever) for a number of reasons. > (a) It keeps the code simple (on the surf side that is; dmenu will > need > to change). > (b) Other web-based activities (smart prefixes in particular) > could benefit from a dmenu + x paste. For example, I have a > surf-googlesearch.sh script which runs dmenu after parsing my user > input > from dmenu. It would be nice to x paste into the dmenu rather than > typing out a given google search (e.g. when one is searching > someone's > odd name.) > (c) In general, I like the xprop interface and allowing applications > other > than surf to interact with surf (which is what your new _SURF_FIND > feature > allows--which is great--which is why we need dmenu to get patched!)
There is sselp(1) at http://tools.suckless.org/sselp which reads current selection and prints it to stdout, hence enables you to integrate it into dmenu's cache or calling surf `sselp` directly. There shouldn't be a real need to paste something interactively into surf or dmenu really. Kind regards, Anselm
