Leander

Leander is a command line HTML clipping utility written in Ruby.

Why?

I wrote this to replace my old method of bookmarking - “xclip -o

perl -pi -e ‘s:$:\n\n:g’ » ~/.bookmarks”.

This provides a nicer way to search for links and get some context when the time comes to retrieve one.

Install

I’ve tested this with ruby 1.8.7 (and now 1.9.1) on Arch Linux. I offer no guarantees to its performance. The simplest way to install is probably ‘gem install leander’, although that may be flakey.

Help

usage: leander ‘query’ OR leander query bookmarks or store a bookmark from URL on STDIN

specific options -d, –delete deletes all documents matching the given query from the index –show-html print out the HTML stored for each URL provided –hide-url hide URL : useful with –show-html to pipe output to a browser -h, –help Show this message

Reccomended Usage

I use Xmonad, and I use leander like this:

((modMask .

. shiftMask, xK_t), spawn “xclip -o

leander”)

Combined with Vimperator’s ‘yy’ command to yank the current URL, it’s pretty slick.

The Name

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leander_(clipper)