Make quicklookurl also work with filepaths

[deanishe]

The new-ish quicklookurl feature in the JSON feedback only works with URLs.

 

The "standard" Quick Look feature (i.e. using arg) also works with filepaths.

 

IMO, quicklookurl should also work with filepaths. It's a very handy feature, and not having it reduces the utility of quicklookurl considerably.

[Andrew]

@deanishe You can just bung a file URL in there such as:

 

file:///Users/preppeller/Desktop/friday-night-movies/old-ladies-eating-cheese-in-the-70s.mov

 

Cheers,

Andrew

[deanishe]

I know, but that's quite a bit more complicated than using the filepath. Languages other than ObjC don't have all the convenience methods for turning paths into URLs and vice versa. You have to start messing around with network libraries instead, and I wouldn't know where to start trying to percent-encode something in bash.

[Andrew]

Fair enough - if you update to b749 it'll now accept / and ~/ paths and internally convert to a file url

[deanishe]

Awesome. Thanks very much.

 

So about those old ladies and their cheese…

[vitor]

21 hours ago, deanishe said:

I wouldn't know where to start trying to percent-encode something in bash.

 

For future reference:

perl -MURI::Escape -ne 'print uri_escape ($_)' <<< "{{input_text}}"

 

And for the reverse:

perl -MURI::Escape -ne 'print uri_unescape ($_)' <<< "{{input_text}}"

[deanishe]

I know how to do it in other languages. 

 

But starting a Perl/Ruby/Python interpreter for every result. Ugh…