Subject: Re: querying PRs by number with a Firefox extension
To: NetBSD Users <netbsd-users@NetBSD.org>
From: Holger Weiss <lists@jhweiss.de>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 07/17/2005 21:28:00
* Matthew Orgass <darkstar@city-net.com> [2005-07-17 15:10]:
> On 2005-07-17 smb@cs.columbia.edu wrote:
> > I always find it annoying to look up PRs by number; it's 3 or 4 clicks
> > to the right page.  Instead, I wrote a bit of Firefox plugin code to
> > let me do it via the search toolbar.  Just put these two files into
> > /usr/pkg/lib/firefox/searchplugins/.  (I should try to get a better
> > icon, but the bookmark icon seems to be the wrong file type.)
>
>   Surfraw also works great for this: netbsd -pr ...

I use [t]csh and lynx:

  alias netbsd-pr \
 'lynx "http://www.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=\!:1"'

Holger

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