Linux Line endings?

[Peter Valdemar Mørch]

Fantastic plugin! Thanks!

When I send the tabs to the clipboard on linux, the lines have does/windows-style newline characters[1], which are not appropriate for Linux. Is there any way to get proper Linux newlines?

Peter

1: https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-great-newline-schism/

[ateng]

Hi there,

You can override the newline characters that Send Tab URLs uses by adding the following string pref in about:config:
extensions.aecreations.sendtabs.message.line_break

Set its value to "\n".


Alex

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[Peter Valdemar Mørch]

Thanks, I've now tried that. I entered \n as two chars: backslash and n. These two chars seem to be inserted verbatim for each newline, though:

From Send Tab URLs (2 links)\n\n\nGoogle\nhttps://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl\n\nCisco Systems, Inc\nhttp://www.cisco.com/\n\n

These are two chars instead of a line-break; not a single line-break character. I also tried with "\n" (four chars) and I tried cut'n'pasting a newline from vim (which got converted to a space).

Is there some trick to entering a single \n char in about:config?

[Peter Valdemar Mørch]

And why isn't \n (ASCII 10) the default on Linux? A similar problem must exist for MACs.

[ateng]

Not sure why that didn't work.  This will have to be investigated further.

[ateng]

I've uploaded an alpha release build of Send Tab URLs which should fix this problem.  It will automatically use DOS/Windows line endings when running on Windows, and Linux/UNIX line endings on Linux and Mac OS X.

To get it, go to the Send Tab URLs page on Mozilla Add-ons, then scroll down and expand the Developer Channel panel an click the yellow "Add to Firefox" button.

Let me know if this works for you.

[Peter Valdemar Mørch]

Yes, that did the trick. It works exactly as I hoped.

[ateng]

Thanks for the feedback.  The official release of Send Tab URLs 2.3.1 will be out shortly, with this bug fix.