howto disable hot-linking

[wolfie2x]

Is it possible to disable hot linking in tomboy?
(i.e the link when I type something like "/proc/foo/bar")

these smart links sometimes (or most of the time) are problematic for me.

scenario:
* I do a 'find' in a terminal and save the results (paths) in a tomboy note.
* later I just need to copy one of the paths from the note.

problem:
* It's not easy to simply select & copy a path using the mouse, since
it starts to popup other windows thinking I'm trying to click the
link.

Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy)
Tomboy 0.10.1

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Thank you.
Sampath Tilakumara
Software Engineer.
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[Sandy Armstrong]

Sampath Tilakumara wrote:
> Is it possible to disable hot linking in tomboy?
> (i.e the link when I type something like "/proc/foo/bar")
>  
No.

> these smart links sometimes (or most of the time) are problematic for me.
>
> scenario:
> * I do a 'find' in a terminal and save the results (paths) in a tomboy note.
> * later I just need to copy one of the paths from the note.
>
> problem:
> * It's not easy to simply select & copy a path using the mouse, since
> it starts to popup other windows thinking I'm trying to click the
> link.
>  

Try right-click -> copy link address.

Sandy
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[wolfie2x]

Sandy, yes that works for a single path, but try doing it with multiple
paths like this (typical output of a grep):

/home/wolfie/wolfwork/BPE/OBlockNode.H
/home/wolfie/wolfwork/BPE/DualPost.cpp
/home/wolfie/wolfwork/BPE/MBitMap.H
/home/wolfie/wolfwork/BPE/MsgFileWriter.H

now if you do a 'copy link' the whole set of paths are copied instead of
one! (in fact this might be a bug? btw I'm using tomboy 0.10.1)

and what if I need to just select only part of the path like
'/home/wolfie/wolfwork/' ?

This 'hot linking' is a feature I have seen on many Windows editors too
and most of them get it wrong and become a nuisance rather than a value
addition. Golden rule => K.I.S.S.

if at least we had the option 'paste as plain text' (like in other
document editors), it would be great!

thx
SampathT


On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 7:03 PM, Sandy Armstrong
<sanfordarmstrong@...> wrote:

> Sampath Tilakumara wrote:
>>
>> Is it possible to disable hot linking in tomboy?
>> (i.e the link when I type something like "/proc/foo/bar")
>>
>
> No.
>>
>> these smart links sometimes (or most of the time) are problematic for me.
>>
>> scenario:
>> * I do a 'find' in a terminal and save the results (paths) in a tomboy
>> note.
>> * later I just need to copy one of the paths from the note.
>>
>> problem:
>> * It's not easy to simply select & copy a path using the mouse, since
>> it starts to popup other windows thinking I'm trying to click the
>> link.
>>
>
> Try right-click -> copy link address.
>
> Sandy
>

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[Sandy Armstrong]

I see what you're saying.  Please file a bug...we should obviously fix
the multiple paths example, and perhaps file path linking should be
entirely optional.

Sampath Tilakumara wrote:

> Sandy, yes that works for a single path, but try doing it with multiple
> paths like this (typical output of a grep):
>
> /home/wolfie/wolfwork/BPE/OBlockNode.H
> /home/wolfie/wolfwork/BPE/DualPost.cpp
> /home/wolfie/wolfwork/BPE/MBitMap.H
> /home/wolfie/wolfwork/BPE/MsgFileWriter.H
>
> now if you do a 'copy link' the whole set of paths are copied instead of
> one! (in fact this might be a bug? btw I'm using tomboy 0.10.1)
>
> and what if I need to just select only part of the path like
> '/home/wolfie/wolfwork/' ?
>
> This 'hot linking' is a feature I have seen on many Windows editors too
> and most of them get it wrong and become a nuisance rather than a value
> addition. Golden rule => K.I.S.S.
>
> if at least we had the option 'paste as plain text' (like in other
> document editors), it would be great!
>
> thx
> SampathT
>
>
> On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 7:03 PM, Sandy Armstrong
> <sanfordarmstrong@...> wrote:
>  
>> Sampath Tilakumara wrote:
>>    
>>> Is it possible to disable hot linking in tomboy?
>>> (i.e the link when I type something like "/proc/foo/bar")
>>>
>>>      
>> No.
>>    
>>> these smart links sometimes (or most of the time) are problematic for me.
>>>
>>> scenario:
>>> * I do a 'find' in a terminal and save the results (paths) in a tomboy
>>> note.
>>> * later I just need to copy one of the paths from the note.
>>>
>>> problem:
>>> * It's not easy to simply select & copy a path using the mouse, since
>>> it starts to popup other windows thinking I'm trying to click the
>>> link.
>>>
>>>      
>> Try right-click -> copy link address.
>>
>> Sandy
>>
>>    
>
>
>
>  

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[Stefan Schweizer-4]

On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 05:42 -0700, Sandy Armstrong wrote:
> I see what you're saying.  Please file a bug...we should obviously
> fix
> the multiple paths example, and perhaps file path linking should be
> entirely optional.

There are already several bugs in bugzilla describing problems with file
links...

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=529568
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=530324
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=436994

The last one has a patch that tries to fix the problem.

        Stefan

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