List of Currently Opened Tabs?

Stefan Tatschner rumpelsepp at sevenbyte.org
Tue Feb 2 00:32:18 CET 2016


On 29.01.2016 10:54, Florian Bruhin wrote:
> There isn't. You'd typically do this via an userscript, and
> there's currently no way for an userscript to request more
> information (or get "answers" to commands it sends).
> 
> qutebrowser could expose this information to userscripts via an 
> environment variable, e.g. some $QUTE_TABS variable set to
> something like:
> 
> 0 0 url title of first tab in first window 0 1 url title of second
> tab in first window [...]
> 
> The problem with that approach is that it might be too much data
> for an environment variable, so maybe $QUTE_TABS would need to be
> a filename of a temporary file, like $QUTE_HTML and $QUTE_TEXT is.
> 
> Then again I'm not sure how much it makes sense to shoehorn all 
> possible usecases into somewhat fragile userscripts. I'd rather
> see plugins written in Python (or possibly JS at some later point),
> but it might still take a while until that's ready.

Thank you very much for your explanation. I agree that the most robust
way would be the integration into the autocompletion module (or as a
plugin).

Stefan



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