Re: Complicated question re: saving files

Ryan Coleman <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.user-groups.linux.tclug
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> On Dec 14, 2020, at 5:34 PM, o1bigtenor <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 4:34 PM Rick Engebretson <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> Just a quick possibility. When your download manager asks what to name
>> the new saved file you might append the browser URL to the suggested
>> name. I don't know how a CLI gets involved. The XWindow selection method
>> works for browser URLs, but the cut and paste buffer does too.
>> 
>> 
> 
> If I were wanting the 'name' or the 'name of the file' this would be useful.
> What I would really like is the location where the 'file' is being
> 'interred' (grin!).
> 
> Thanks for the ideas!
> 
> Regards

Does your browser give you the option when contextually-clicking (right-click, control-click, whatever your system does) and give you a choice of “open file location”? The major browsers for other platforms do this. 

—
Ryan


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