[Surfraw-devel] surfraw -- errors to stderr, bookmark handling

[Ian Beckwith]

Hi,

Sorry again about the delay replying.

On Sun, Apr 03, 2011 at 04:01:30PM +0100, Stephen Blott wrote:
>       $ surfraw any old garbage
> 
>    produces a non-zero exit code (which is good) and a usage message on
>    standard output (which is bad).  Surely error messages should go to
>    standard error.

Fixed. What about just doing a bare "surfraw"? At the moment that does
stdout + exit 0. Should that go to stderr to? I can see arguments for both ways.

[bookmark matching]
>    The offending line is:
> 
>       nawk -v search="$search" '$1 ~ search { print $2; }'  $file | head -n 1
> 
>    which seems somewhat too liberal to me.

I've changed ~ to == (regexp match to exact match).

> I have written a pentadactyl/firefox plugin for surfraw.  Pentadactyl is
> a firefox plugin which provides a vim-like interface to firefox:

Cool! I've added a stanza to README about it.

thanks,

Ian.

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