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                            Yet more code released

> From: S Page <XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX>
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: your "program that will select the URL (Uniform Resource Locator)
>         and HTML (HyperText Markup Language) from the Firefox primary text
>         selection" ?
> Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2011 15:43:56 -0800
>
> Hey there, I'm trying to find a command-line program that will output the
> HTML of Firefox's current selection. Klipper, xsel, xclip, etc. all just
> deal with the plain text. None of them admit to doing the content
> negotiation.
>
> In http://boston.conman.org/2008/12/03.1 [1] you investigated and hacked
> away and came up with a program. Awesome … so where is it, can you share
> it?
>
> In my case I just want to grab the actual HTML of a humongous dynamic
> Facebook page, so big that Firefox's Select All then View Selection Source
> exhausts memory.
>
> Your hack of composing the various clipboard formats into a mini citation
> is really cool, I wish something like Klipper had such templating ability.
>
> Cheers,
>
> –
>  =S Page
>

Wow! Somebody's interested in something I wrote! Very cool!

And yes, I did make the source code [2] available, although there's no
documentation, it uses a library I no longer maintain, and it might be a bit
temperamental to use, but it is available.

And I nearly forgot—the program xselect.c [3], a program I wrote that can be
used to query and get the various forms of the current X11 selection buffer.

[1] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2008/12/03.1
[2] gopher://gopher.conman.org/9Phlog:2008/12/03/blockquote.tar.gz
[3] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2011/11/29/xselect.c

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