Useful aliases and shortcuts for extracting links and text from command output history in xonsh.

If you use prompt toolkit, histcpy will bind the follow shortcuts:

• Alt + u: Open one of the URLs that a previous command wrote to output in your web browser
• Alt + y: Copy one of the URLs to clipboard

The same functionality and more is available with the following command aliases (even when not using ptk):

• getout: Copy the output of one of the last few commands to clipboard (without re-running the command - uses history)
• cpyclip: Copy one of the last few URLs that a command wrote to stdout to clipboard (Alt+y keybinding)
• cpyclip: Open one of the last few URLs that a command wrote to stdout in your browser (Alt+u keybinding)

Currently, histcpy can only work with the default $XONSH_HISTORY_BACKEND (i.e. it does not work with the sqlite backend, only json). You also need to set $XONSH_STORE_STDOUT=True, obviously.

Just do a

pip install xontrib-histcpy

or you can clone the repo with pip

pip install git+https://github.com/con-f-use/xontrib-histcpy

To automatically load histcpy on startup, put

xontrib load histcpy

in your .xonshrc.

• Do an alias+shortcut for getting paths for files and directories and such from history (only existing on filesystem?)
• Make shortcuts configurable
• Use @events.onpostcommand as fallback if not XONSH_STORE_STDOUT (see #14)

• More powerful alternative is xontrib-output-search.