[Pan-users] Re: Supplying parameters to applications

[Lionel B]

On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 21:20:33 +0000, Benjamin Esham wrote:

> Lionel B wrote:
> 
>> I'd like to set my preferred browser to Opera. The command to open a
>> url in a new tab in a running instance of opera is:
>> 
>> opera --remote 'openURL(URL,new-page)'
>> 
>> What should I enter in the Pan Preferences/Application/Web Browser
>> field so that it if I click on a link in a message the link's url is
>> supplied as the URL parameter for the above command?
> 
> AFAIK it's not possible to have text /after/ the URL, but you could
> always cheat :-)  Use a shell script like this:
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> /path/to/opera --remote 'openURL($1,new-page)'
> 
> For Pan's preference, just enter the script's path.

Nice idea - I'll give it a go.

Cheers,

-- 
Lionel B