plumb

A URL menu for Emacs
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      1 #+title: plumb.el -- interactively choose what to do with a URL
      2 #+author: Jamie Beardslee
      3 #+email: jdb@jamzattack.xyz
      4 
      5 This packages provides a convenient way to act on a URL in the way of
      6 your choosing.
      7 
      8 * Installation
      9 
     10 ** package.el
     11 
     12 1. Download plumb.el
     13 2. =M-x package-install-file RET path/to/plumb.el=
     14 
     15 ** straight.el
     16 
     17 Use the following recipe:
     18 
     19 #+begin_src emacs-lisp
     20   (plumb :type git
     21 	 :flavor melpa
     22 	 :repo "https://git.jamzattack.xyz/plumb")
     23 #+end_src
     24 
     25 ** Manual installation
     26 
     27 1. Download plumb.el
     28 2. Put it in =load-path=
     29 3. Update autoloads
     30 4. (optionally) byte-compile it
     31 
     32 * How is the URL selected?
     33 
     34 The URL is selected from the following, in order:
     35 
     36 - bug-reference link at point
     37 - shr link at point
     38 - URL at point
     39 - Org link at point (only in org-mode)
     40 - read from minibuffer
     41 
     42 * What actions are there?
     43 
     44 The main entry point =plumb= prompts you to choose from one of the
     45 following actions:
     46 
     47 - Save to register
     48 - eww
     49 - external browser
     50 - View as image
     51 - View as pdf
     52 - Download and open
     53 - Stream
     54 - Download video
     55 - Download audio
     56 
     57 ** Other entry points
     58 
     59 The following functions are autoloaded, so you can use them in a
     60 keybinding (for example, in =eww-mode-map=):
     61 
     62 | =plumb=                | Select action from a list |
     63 | =plumb-stream=         | Stream video or audio     |
     64 | =plumb-download-video= | Download video            |
     65 | =plumb-audio=          | Download audio            |
     66 
     67 * License
     68 
     69 GPL3+
     70 
     71 * COMMENT Improvement plans [2/5]
     72 
     73 ** DONE Handle org links
     74 
     75 Oddly, there isn't a simple ~org-link-at-point~ function.  I need to
     76 figure out how all the org regexps should be used.
     77 
     78 ** DONE Use ~defcustom~
     79 
     80 I don't really use =customize=, but I think it's good practice to
     81 allow it where possible.
     82 
     83 ** TODO Use an alist for functions instead of pcase
     84 
     85 See [[https://git.jamzattack.xyz/lilypond-auto-insert][lilypond-auto-insert]] for a possible way to do this.
     86 
     87 Create an alist of =(FUNCTION . DESCRIPTION)=, and use assoc/rassoc
     88 and apply.  This would require all functions to take the same
     89 arguments (currently not an issue, but may hinder further expansion).
     90 
     91 ** TODO Make order of link choice customizable
     92 
     93 Example: A shr link has a url as the text, and a different url as the
     94 link.  One should be able to choose which is used.
     95 
     96 This could be done with a list of functions, using mapcar or.
     97 
     98 ** TODO Use prefix arg for ~plumb~
     99 
    100 There are a couple of ways to do this:
    101 
    102 - Pass the arg to the selected function.  This would work well with
    103   the alist approach.
    104 - Prefix arg prompts for URL instead of selecting automatically.