[HN Gopher] Drag and Drop from Terminal ___________________________________________________________________ Drag and Drop from Terminal Author : xk3 Score : 22 points Date : 2022-12-02 20:19 UTC (2 hours ago) (HTM) web link (blog.meain.io) (TXT) w3m dump (blog.meain.io) | aendruk wrote: | See also: ls --hyperlink | | With a compatible terminal you can then just click on results. | Another nicety is making your shell prompt a link to the working | directory. | | Haven't seen a terminal that lets you drag the links but that | sounds like a logical feature. | codetrotter wrote: | Neat! Here's a blog post with more details | | https://purpleidea.com/blog/2018/06/29/hyperlinks-in-gnome-t... | flobosg wrote: | Cool idea. I get some Plan 9/plumbing vibes from this. | angry_octet wrote: | Nice. Linux has been missing out on this. | | On macos you have the 'open <path>' command, which is equivalent | to double clicking that <path> object, whether it be a folder, | file or application; you can also drag a folder/file to the | terminal to paste it's path. No context menu <open terminal here> | by default, but I think there are add one which do that. | dixie_land wrote: | FWIW xdg-open works similar to open | | https://linux.die.net/man/1/xdg-open | synthc wrote: | Linux has xdg-open to open files from the terminal | hprotagonist wrote: | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33137057 | | dragon is great. goes very nicely with emacs/dired! | [deleted] ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-12-02 23:00 UTC)