[Surfraw-devel] Bug#652610: ability to crop result

[martin f krafft]

Package: surfraw
Version: 2.2.8-1
Severity: wishlist
Tags: upstream

I would love to be able to use surfraw as a generic "information
extractor". For instance, with elvis like leodict, rfc, rhyme,
thesaurus, foldoc, etym, currency, etc., I don't really want/need it
to open a browser. Instead, all I really want is to see the results
right there in the terminal.

The way I envision this is that elvis can set $SURFRAW_CROP_head and
$SURFRAW_CROP_tail to regular expressions, and surfraw then strips
the matches accordingly.

Alternatively, $SURFRAW_CROP_match may be used to just select a part
of the HTML returned.

Surfraw would then wrap that HTML with simple boilerplate and
display it with the browser of choice.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.0.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_NZ, LC_CTYPE=en_NZ.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages surfraw depends on:
ii  chromium [www-browser]   15.0.874.121~r109964-1
ii  iceweasel [www-browser]  8.0-3+b1
ii  uzbl [www-browser]       0.0.0~git.20111128-1
ii  w3m [www-browser]        0.5.3-5

Versions of packages surfraw recommends:
ii  curl           7.23.1-3
ii  libwww-perl    6.03-1
ii  surfraw-extra  2.2.8-1
ii  w3m            0.5.3-5
ii  wget           1.13.4-1

Versions of packages surfraw suggests:
ii  screen  4.0.3-14

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