The joys of U2

  • From: Harry Binswanger <hb@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: xywrite@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2017 11:28:30 -0400

Belatedly, I've been investigating Carl's U2 frames for using the web from the XyWrite command line, and I'm knocked out. Some samples:

yag harry binswanger<helpkey>

That opens your browser (or a new tab) and executes a Google search on me.

yar splendid<helpkey>

Opens the web-based Roget's thesaurus with its hits for "splendid."

For websites you visit frequently, you can assign a one word mnemonic, in XyWWWeb.REG to go to it by issuing:

web wiki<helpkey>

That goes to wikipedia, if you add this line to the .REG (case sensitive):

URL1=wiki=https://www.wikipedia.org/

(It's "URL1" as opposed to "URL2" or higher, which would be other aliases you assign.)

Wow! Thank you Carl.


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