[Pan-users] Re: Supplying parameters to applications

[Benjamin Esham]

Lionel B wrote:

> I'd like to set my preferred browser to Opera. The command to open a url
> in a new tab in a running instance of opera is:
> 
> opera --remote 'openURL(URL,new-page)'
> 
> What should I enter in the Pan Preferences/Application/Web Browser field
> so that it if I click on a link in a message the link's url is supplied as
> the URL parameter for the above command?

AFAIK it's not possible to have text /after/ the URL, but you could always
cheat :-)  Use a shell script like this:

#!/bin/sh
/path/to/opera --remote 'openURL($1,new-page)'

For Pan's preference, just enter the script's path.

HTH,
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