Re: Support for RFC 8089

[Steeve McCauley]

I suspect the problem of a clash with a directory named file:// minimal
though, in POSIX at least.  Not sure about the network file server issue,
but with the double (treble) slash it also seems unlikely to be a problem.

Thanks for the info, I hadn't noticed the Paste Filenames context menu
item, but since I always paste with "Ctrl+Shift+V" ... I'll see what the
gnome types think about providing a short cut customization, seems an
oversight not to provide one.

slainte

Steeve


On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 11:31 AM, Pádraig Brady <address@hidden> wrote:

> On 13/06/17 06:39, Steeve McCauley wrote:
> > I searched google and the bug and list archives for coreutils but
> couldn't
> > find any mention of support for local or non-local file URIs,
> >
> > file:///foo/bar
> > file://remote.baz/foo/bar
> >
> > has there ever been any discussion of support for file URIs in coreutils?
> >
> > I often copy files into the clipboard (using fedora 25 with gnome shell
> > 3.22.3) and then have to manually remove the file URI at the command line
> > to remove the file:/// part.
>
> Note gnome shell has the "paste filenames" feature, when you've selected
> and
> copied file(s) in the nautilus browser, though is a little awkward to
> access.
> You can use right click in gnome terminal to access the menu,
> or (with the menu bar enabled) Alt+e f <return>.
> There doesn't seem to be a way to assign a shortcut to this function.
> I'd log a feature request to do that with the gnome folks,
> as that would be a simple and relatively safe way to achieve what you want.
>
> I'm not sure coreutils could support file:// directly
> due to the clash with a network file server named 'file' or a directory
> named 'file:'
>
> I see that xdg-open supports file:// urls though that's quite a
> specialised tool.
>
> It's also worth noting the recent proposal to have ls output clickable
> links
> which could use file:// resulting in gnome terminal opening the default
> application when the file links were ctrl clicked.
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2017-05/msg00000.html
>
> cheers,
> Pádraig.
>
>


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