How to copy a hyperlink on hover?

[zzhaolei]

I want to copy a hover hyperlink (not a standard hyperlink), how can I copy it?

I have used this script (https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/open_actions/), but it does not work.

(Is it possible to customize the protocol?)

protocol copy
action launch --type=background echo ${FILE_PATH} | pbcopy

echo -e "\033]8;;copy://copy this msg\033\\AAA\033]8;;\033\\"

Answer

1. ~/.config/kitty/_copy_action:

#!/bin/bash
echo $@ | sed 's/^.*:\/\///' | pbcopy

2. ~/.config/kitty/open-actions.conf:

# copy://[OPTION]
protocol copy
action launch --type=background ~/.config/kitty/_copy_action ${URL}

3. click Copy This text
   echo -e "\033]8;;copy://copy this msg\033\\Copy This\033]8;;\033\\"

4. cmd+v
   copy this msg

[kovidgoyal]

Open actions happen on click not hover. And you want something like

protocol copy
action pbcopy ${NETLOC}

[zzhaolei]

This doesn't work, and click echo "https://google.com" doesn't work either.

[kovidgoyal]

Clicking echo https://google.com without any open actions defined to match it will open it with your system default handler for https URLs which works fine. As for your copy case, works for me, not using pbcopy but an equivalent tool.

protocol copy
action launch --type=background wl-copy ${NETLOC}

copies "copy this msg" to the clipoard on click as expected

[zzhaolei]

In fishshell, pbcopy can only be used like this: echo abc | pbcopy. Can open-actions achieve this?

[zzhaolei]

In fishshell, pbcopy can only be used like this: echo abc | pbcopy. Can open-actions achieve this?

pbcopy can only be used in this way🥲

[kovidgoyal]

Write a script that takes the first first argument and apsses it to pbcopy over stdin and invoke that in open-actions

[zzhaolei]

This works, hopefully it can be even simpler.