Pasting a path to a file/folder

[maximbaz]

I use xplr as a file picker for the browser, so when I click "attach file" on some website, xplr will show up. Works nice, but I have a case when I already have a path to the file that I want to attach in clipboard. I wish to be able to press some button in xplr and just paste the path into xplr, so that xplr just goes into that dir and focuses on the file, so that I only need to press Enter to close xplr.

If i have a path to a directory, I guess xplr should enter the directory and focus on the first file there, or maybe just go to the parent directory and focus the directory I have in clipboard.

Do you think it's something that should live in my dotfiles, or is it something common enough to include in default config?

[sayanarijit]

First of all, nice! I didn't know xplr could do that 😅

As I understand it requires gui interaction, and/or depends on clipboard tools. While there are exceptions like xdg-open, and editor, I'd avoid adding any more platform dependent tools.

For requirements like this, I'd first go with creating a plugin or a hack and see how useful the feature is, i.e. how many users use it. Only then we'll be able determine if it can be added to default as an exception like xdg-open.

[sayanarijit]

We can replace FocusPathFromInput with BashExecSilently = [===[FocusPath: echo $(ls -d "${XPLR_INPUT_BUFFER:?}") >> "${XPLR_PIPE_MSG_IN:?}"]===].

[sayanarijit]

ls -d, not ls -ld

[sayanarijit]

➜  ~ /bin/ls "~/Downloads"
/bin/ls: cannot access '~/Downloads': No such file or directory

Doesn't work. Not sure if adding shell expansion in rust will be a good idea. Because there are all kinds of shell dependent special characters.

[sayanarijit]

I don't have an optimal solution for this. Both Rust and Lua depend on external libraries to expand path. Maybe create an issue so that we can deal with it later.

[maximbaz]

I'll try simply this hack, and see if it's sufficient for my case. Thanks for your help on this!

BashExecSilently = [===[
    dir="$(echo "${XPLR_INPUT_BUFFER:?}" | sed 's|~|/home/maximbaz|g')"
    echo "FocusPath: $dir" >> "${XPLR_PIPE_MSG_IN:?}"
]===],

[sayanarijit]

My mimeapps.list:

[Added Associations]
# inode/directory=org.kde.dolphin.desktop;
inode/directory=xplr.desktop;
video/x-matroska=vlc.desktop;
x-scheme-handler/mailto=thunderbird.desktop;userapp-Evolution-3UUR00.desktop;
x-scheme-handler/tg=userapp-Telegram Desktop-S2PCX0.desktop;
image/png=firefox.desktop;

[Default Applications]
# inode/directory=org.kde.dolphin.desktop;
inode/directory=xplr.desktop;
video/x-matroska=vlc.desktop;
x-scheme-handler/http=firefox.desktop;
x-scheme-handler/https=firefox.desktop;
x-scheme-handler/mailto=userapp-Evolution-3UUR00.desktop
x-scheme-handler/tg=userapp-Telegram Desktop-S2PCX0.desktop
x-scheme-handler/etcher=appimagekit_baba58c0e81e6ce71aed830f21b8cca0-balenaEtcher.desktop
x-scheme-handler/graphql-playground=graphql-playground-electron.desktop
x-scheme-handler/web+stellar=keybase.desktop
x-scheme-handler/keybase=keybase.desktop

It works when I open a directory from let's say terminal, but I couldn't get firefox to use xplr for the picker.

[maximbaz]

It's actually a configuration in the browser itself, e.g. in qutebrowser I configured it like so:

https://github.com/maximbaz/dotfiles/blob/df582b7d6a60b89487289006f7ba034bded4c5a0/.config/qutebrowser/config.py#L24-L25

mimeapps is for xdg-open /some/dir, as you have already discovered...

[sayanarijit]

@maximbaz You might want to check out https://github.com/sayanarijit/completion.xplr

Maybe I'll make a dedicated plugin. For now, it's a bit laggy, but I think it's usable.