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Is there a keyboard shortcut to copy the URL of the page you're on? (self.firefox)

submitted 1 year ago by plazman30 to c/[email protected]

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I just went through a long list of keyboard shortcuts for Firefox. One that I didn't see that I would find useful is to press something like ⇧ Shift + ⌘ + C to copy the URL and then paste it into an email or message to send to someone. Does something like this exist?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I use the following short script linked to a hotkey. I'm sure it would be easy to make it better, but it works for me.

#!/bin/bash

f=$(mktemp) &&
gvim --nofork +startinsert -S <(echo 'inoremap <C-Q> <Esc>ZZ') "$f" -c 'set wrap' -c 'set spell' &&
xsel < "$f"
sleep 0.5
xdotool type "$( xclip -o )"

I don't bother opening Vim in a terminal, because I just use this for quick edits. When in the text field, I hit my shortcut, gvim pops up in insert mode. I can type up whatever I want, then when I exit (allows for ctrl-q) it pastes what I wrote.