From: Bengt Richter <bokr@bokr.com>
To: Simon Tournier <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>
Cc: 62160@debbugs.gnu.org, Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org>
Subject: bug#62160: Guix reference manual link from guix.gnu.org?
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2023 22:38:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230314213820.GA6347@LionPure> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230314173536.GA3802@LionPure>
Hi,
On +2023-03-14 18:35:36 +0100, bokr@bokr.com wrote:
[...]
> BUT: A nit:
>
> In firefox-esr, if you do "save-as ...", it will prompt with a file name
> seemingly pretty directly copying the URL characters, in this case
> "GNU Guix Reference Manual.html" -- which has spaces in it.
>
Sorry, I think it just copies whatever XXX is in the html header as
<title>XXX</title>
but some sites have weird strings in their titles, so the problem
remains..
> So my nuisance work flow is:
> - copy url from browser line into clipboard,
> - switch to a terminal,
> - touch $(sanitize-clipboard-url), ;; hack also puts clean name-string back in clipboard
> - switch to browser
> - delete undesired file name string from prompt by pasting in the clean name string
> - click save-as
>
> I would really like Mozilla to solve this with configurable sanitization options
> for the file name. Especially if I am looking at a page with an URL that has
> weird non-ascii/utf-8 characters besides spaces.
>
> But until Mozilla offers that, could GNU web pages have some kind of alias link on them
> with a sanitized name to do save-link-as (not plain save-as) with,
> so as to get a clean name?
I would still like this option, but I'm not sure how to implement
such an alias link in a static page.
IWG no problem if the header is dynamically generated ??
--
Regards,
Bengt Richter
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-03-13 12:11 bug#62160: Guix reference manual link from guix.gnu.org? Simon Josefsson via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2023-03-14 11:29 ` Simon Tournier
2023-03-14 17:35 ` bokr
2023-03-14 21:38 ` Bengt Richter [this message]
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