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+#!/bin/sh
+
+# My interpretation of a plumber (plan9 style).
+# It scans the selected text (xsel) and decides what to do with it among
+# some possibilities (open file, open url, man page...). If none is matched,
+# a choice is prompted.
+
+# Requires: dmenu (or similar), mail-compose, open-file, websearch, xsel
+
+# TODO:
+#       send mail to email address;
+#       calendar if it is a date
+#       choice: pipe to another program
+
+browser=${BROWSER:-firefox}
+terminal=${TERMINAL:-xterm}
+xeditor=${XEDITOR:-gedit}
+menu=${MENU:-dmenu}
+menuopts="-l 10"
+
+text=$(xsel | sed 's/\n/ /g')
+if [ $(echo "$text" | wc -c) -ge 11 ]; then
+        shorttext=$(echo "$text" | cut -b 1-10)...
+else
+        shorttext="$text"
+fi
+
+choice() {
+        chosen=$(printf "websearch\nedit" | \
+                 $menu $menuopts -p "What to do with \"$shorttext\"?")
+
+        if [ "$chosen" = "websearch" ]; then
+                websearch $text
+        elif [ "$chosen" = "edit" ]; then
+                f=$(mktemp)
+                xsel > "$f"
+                $xeditor "$f"
+        fi
+}
+
+trymail() {
+        addr=$(echo "$1" | addressgrep)
+        ( [ -n "$addr" ] && mail-compose $addr ) || return 1
+}
+
+tryman() {
+        number=$(echo "$1" | sed 's/[^1-8]//g')
+        name=$(echo "$1" | sed 's/([1-8])//g' | sed 's/ //g')
+        if [ $(man -w "$number" "$name" | wc -l) = 1 ]; then
+                $terminal -e man "$number" "$name"
+                return 0
+        else
+                return 1
+        fi
+}
+
+tryurl() {
+        url=$(echo "$1" | urlgrep)
+        ( [ -n "$url" ] && $browser $url ) || return 1
+}
+
+open-file "$text" || \
+tryurl    "$text" || \
+trymail   "$text" || \
+tryman    "$text" || \
+choice