Re: my web browsing technique

Kind of an old thread, but I like VNC OK and finally broke down and wrote
this plumbing rule:

        # urls to opera on another machine
        type is text
        data matches 
'(https?|ftp|file|gopher|mailto|news|nntp|telnet|wais|prospero)://[a-zA-Z0-9_@\-]+([.:][a-zA-Z0-9_@\-]+)*/?[a-zA-Z0-9_?,%#~&/\-+=]+([:.][a-zA-Z0-9_?,%#~&/\-+=]+)*'
        plumb to web
        plumb start ssh my-vnc-machine.com 'DISPLAY=:3' opera -newpage 
''''$0''''

The quotes around DISPLAY=:3 are to get the assignment past the
plumber; the quotes around $0 get its contents past ssh and into the
destination machine without reevaluation by the shell.

The
        plumb to web
line lets me debug the pattern: just
        cat /mnt/plumb/web
and click on a URL to see what the data matches. (Good trick in general.)

Opera will pop the URL into a running instance of itself if possible
(nice thinking, guys!) and the -newpage option means it will create a
new Opera subwindow rather than overwriting an existing page.  Someone
sends you a list of URLS?  Just right-click on each one in the list
and - voila!  - Opera will go fetch them all for you, each in a
different window.

This rule scratches the itch pretty well.  There well may be a better
pattern for the 'matches' line, but that's not the point.

-rob