Comments on: Firefox Ubiquity Command : fyi

By: binco

binco — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 14:26:35 +0000

First: thanks for the nice command

I’m sorry, but the page, for which I installed the plugin, was one of those not-working ones…

http://lebens-mittel-punkt.de/WordPress/?p=72

Maybe it’s possible to add a to not only if it was a valid mail-adress. That way I could use the auto-completion of my mail-client afterwards…

By: fyi Ubiquity Command Updated at Mike Chambers

fyi Ubiquity Command Updated at Mike Chambers — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 07:25:33 +0000

[...] a quick note, but I have updated my “fyi” Firefox Ubiquity command to work with the latest version of Ubiquity [...]

By: Achim Bode » Blog Archive » Ubiquity-Script for documentation of your browsing in a wiki

Sat, 21 Mar 2009 10:58:43 +0000

[...] idea came up, when I discovered the famous fyi Script by Mike Chambers – THE script to explain people what Ubiquity is good for by the way. Credits to Christian Sonne for [...]

By: Anis

Anis — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 23:49:05 +0000

Hi,
thank you it’s working but…
i won’t remember the name of the command tomorrow!

Why “fyi” and not thunderbird or mail2 / mto or whatever more explicit?

By: madteckhead

madteckhead — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 23:00:55 +0000

Just a quick suggestion: that the snippet go above the URL. This way if the snippet is interesting to the reader they can proceed to the URL for the full story.

Cheers,

Nathan

By: harry myyers

harry myyers — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 16:29:32 +0000

Is accidentally a gnus user reading this who knows to do it with gnus?
For open mailto links with gnus I have this little script:
#!/bin/bash
/usr/bin/emacsclient -e “(message-mail (substring \”$1\” 7))”

Then a mail with fyi looks like this:
To: me@mail.de?subject=fyi%20%3A%20Firefox%20Ubiquity%20Command%20%3A%20fyi%20at%20Mike%20Chambers&body=http%3A//www.mikechambers.com/blog/2008/08/31/firefox-ubiquity-command-fyi/%0A
Subject:
…

henry

By: Darren Mccormac

Darren Mccormac — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 01:48:26 +0000

I can not get firefox 3 to subscribe to your page

Thank you

By: Philippe Lhoste

Philippe Lhoste — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 11:46:23 +0000

Interesting, I will take a look at this plugin.
Although I usually have less steps, using both a clipboard manager (I can make several copies then paste them successively) and the handy Make Link plugin (can create an HTML (or BBCode, plain text, Markdown, etc.) link from the current URL (or the one on the pointed link) and the current page title (or the text in the pointed link, etc.).
Anyway, I am off to discover Ubiquity!

By: James

James — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 07:24:05 +0000

@Mike

True, the plain text email issue I thought about too, I’ve not been able to think of a way around it though.

Another quick idea to add in is the “auto-complete” feature so I don’t have to know my friend’s e-mail address to send them stuff (you know the people I’m talking about… those silly t3h.r0xorz type people)

(Ubiquity email does this already and I’m sure you could easily call this)

CmdUtils.CreateCommand({
name: “insert-email”,
takes: {“person”: noun_type_contact},
preview: “Inserts someone’s email address by name.”,
execute: function( email ) {
CmdUtils.setSelection( email.text );
}
})

By: mikechambers

mikechambers — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 06:48:43 +0000

@James

Ahh. ok.

I dont know if that is technically possible, as i have to use a mailto: url to actually call the email application.

I could possibly format the body as HTML (not sure how that works), but it would mean that:

1. anyone using plain text for email would get a bunch of HTML (not good)
2. the amount of data your could send to the email would be reduced.

Regardless, I will play around with it and see if I can come up with something that works.

Thanks for the feedback…

mike