If you’re developer who uses Linux for work and has an appreciation for command line tools, it’s likely you spend all day in apps like IRC, Mutt, use Vim, emacs, and git commands. All of which, are probably littered with references to your project management code. My company uses Jira but yours may very. 6-7 years ago I “hacked” KDE’s Konsole to add an “open in Jira” link to the Konsole and it was like enriching dozens of programs at once! Now IRC, Vim, git all benefited at once from a single change. See the image for screenshots
Checking out the latest dev version of Konsole on my path to reimplement the feature again I spot a new feature. The feature allows selected text to be used to open a URL:
It appears to have a simple configuration for building simple urls
The feature is called Web Shortcuts and appears in Konsole 20.12.2 (and possibly earlier)
Huge thanks to the KDE Konsole team for this awesome feature! As a Debian Stable user I have no idea how long this has been around, but I love it! I don’t know how much publicity Konsole gets but I wanted to share!
As a serious command line user, like many Linux users, Konsole’s 3 killer features for me are:
- This open in JIRA thing
- Infinite scrollback
- Search output