Netscape, then Mozilla, then Firefox had this feature on middle-button-click for literally decades. Firefox devs killed it years ago, despite howls of protest.
You could literally highlight any text, anywhere, and a middle-click in the browser window would navigate there. It was awesome. Basically a web equivalent of X-windows’ middle-click paste feature.
It’s crazy crazy sort order that I can’t stand. They deliberately go in and remove certain characters from the filename, specifically to make the sorting behave weirdly.
They missed my personal favourite:
SHIFT + INSERT … paste the content of the PRIMARY select buffer (currently selected text).
I fucking love Cory Doctorow
I’m usually a bit scornful of “bling” commands, but bat seems genuinely useful.
r/Wellthatsucks is now a subreddit about vacuum cleaners.
Made my day.
I’m in the UK, and I use Telegram. It’s far superior to WhatsApp, and has somewhat better ethics (for now).
No you can’t. The code was changed years ago to only work if the text in the PRIMARY buffer “sort of looks like it might be a URL”.
That defeats the whole point of the feature. If someone has written “go to example.domain, it’s amazing”, without bothering to make “example.domain” a link anchor, or even prepending “https://”, then there’s no easy way to actually visit the site. Previously, I could just select the text I wanted, middle-click into a browser window, and hey presto. Doesn’t work any more.