Re: Support for RFC 8089

[Pádraig Brady]

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.