1CLIPBROWSE(1)         User Contributed Perl Documentation        CLIPBROWSE(1)
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NAME

6       clipbrowse - Load a URL from the clipboard into your browser.
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USAGE

9       # ...copy something # (You might want to do a `clipjoin` if the URL
10       text is messy) $ clipbrowse
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12       Remember that many browsers will load things that don't look like
13       URL's... for example Firefox does a Google "I'm feeling lucky".  This
14       means you can have any text in your clipboard and `clipbrowse`.
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MOTIVATION

17       It saves a couple of seconds every time you run it.  Firefox, for
18       example, automatically creates a new tab and loads the page when you
19       invoke it from the command line.  Already we've saved a Ctrl+T and a
20       Shift+Insert.  When you consider the parallelizing (that your browser
21       will be actively loading the page while you're Alt+Tabbing to it),
22       you've squeaked out a little more.
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24       Maybe I'm just a freak, but I like shaving out wasted time like that.
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X+FIREFOX MOTIVATION

27       It seems like Firefox (currently) isn't very smart about the X
28       selections.  If your data is in the "buffer" or "primary" selection, it
29       will find it every time.  But if it's in "clipboard" or "secondary", it
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32       When I understand all of this better I might submit some kind of bug
33       report or patch to Firefox, but for now this script puts the love on me
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CONFIGURATION

37       The environment variable $BROWSER will override the default launching
38       command.  If you have a %s in the line, it will be replaced with the
39       url.  if not, the url will be appended at the end.
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41       The default is `firefox -remote "openURL(%s,new-tab)"`.
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AUTHOR

44       Ryan King <rking@sharpsaw.org> =head1 COPYRIGHT
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46       Copyright (c) 2005.  Ryan King.  All rights reserved.
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48       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
49       under the same terms as Perl itself.
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51       See <http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html>
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55perl v5.12.0                      2005-10-20                     CLIPBROWSE(1)
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