Open a File in Seamonkey Composer

[s243a]

Create the short script

/usr/local/bin/composer

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#!/bin/sh
seamonkey -edit "`readlink -f $1`"

Now say I have a file called index.html. If I'm in that folder [1], I can type

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composer index.html

to open the file. Next we would like to be able to right click an item and select open with composer.

If you copy the file

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/usr/share/applications/seamonkey.desktop

and rename it

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/usr/share/applications/composer.desktop

and replace the part after the "=" sign where it says exec with "composer" as follows:

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[Desktop Entry]
Name=Seamonkey
GenericName=Seamonkey Web Browser
X-GNOME-FullName=Seamonkey Web Browser
Exec=composer
Icon=/opt/seamonkey/chrome/icons/default/default48.png
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=X-Internet-browser

then one would think that we can just drag this file into the folder [2]

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~/.config/rox.sourcefordge.net/SendTo

to make this script work when we right write click the file.

However, It doesn't quite work. I seem to get the path twice:

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The file /root/spot/PT/s243a/recomendations-old-hardware/item216383838%0A/root/-%0A/root/Recommendations%0A/root/For%0A/root/Old%0A/root/Hardware.html cannot be found. Please check the location and try again.

I'll try to fix this and report back.

Notes
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1. You can get a terminal to a local folder by pressing the tilda sign "~" when in that folder in the rox file manager.
2. As an alternative to navigating to the folder "~/.config/rox.sourcefordge.net/SendTo" one can right click on the file, then select "sent to" and then select customize. This will open a folder where you can put scripts that will be called when you right click on the file. Normally one would put a symbolic link to the script in this folder rather then the entire script in order to avoid duplication.

[s243a]

The issue was that I had spaces in my file name. You can fix this by setting the Internal Field separator to the empty string:

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IFS=''

here is the full script:

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#!/bin/sh
Old_IFS="$IFS"
IFS=''
seamonkey -edit "`readlink -f $1`"
IFS="$Old_IFS"

Note that it probably isn't necessary to reset the internal field separator since it is only set to the empty string for the context of this script anyway,

[tallboy]

Doesn't it feel good when you can answer your own questions and correct any mistakes?