plugins/browser.lua

   1 --
   2 -- Copyright (c) 2007, Bart Trojanowski <bart@jukie.net>
   3 --
   4 -- Browser integration for wmii.
   5 --
   6 -- This plugin depends on xclip utility.
   7 --
   8
   9 local wmii = require("wmii")
  10 local os = require("os")
  11 local string = require("string")
  12 local tostring = tostring
  13 local type = type
  14
  15 module ("browser")
  16 api_version=0.1
  17
  18 -- configuration defaults
  19
  20 wmii.set_conf ("browser", "firefox")
  21
  22 -- new handlers
  23
  24 wmii.add_action_handler ("browser", function (act, args)
  25         local url = ""
  26         if type(args) == "string" then
  27                 -- create an quoted string, with quotes in the argument escaped
  28                 url = args:gsub("^%s*",""):gsub("%s*$","")
  29                 url = "'" .. url:gsub("'", "\\'") .. "'"
  30         else
  31                 -- TODO: need to escape this
  32                 url = '"`xclip -o`"'
  33         end
  34         local browser = wmii.get_conf ("browser") or "x-www-browser"
  35         local cmd = browser .. " " .. url .. " &"
  36         wmii.log ("    executing: " .. cmd)
  37         os.execute (cmd)
  38 end)
  39
  40 wmii.add_action_handler ("google", function (act, args)
  41         local search = ""
  42         if type(args) == "string" then
  43                 -- create an quoted string, with quotes in the argument escaped
  44                 search = args:gsub("^%s*",""):gsub("%s*$","")
  45                 search = search:gsub("'", "\\'")
  46         else
  47                 -- TODO: need to escape this
  48                 search = '`xclip -o`'
  49         end
  50         local browser = wmii.get_conf ("browser") or "x-www-browser"
  51         local cmd = browser .. " \"http://google.com/search?q=" .. search .. "\" &"
  52         wmii.log ("    executing: " .. cmd)
  53         os.execute (cmd)
  54 end)