ploombplumbing in Linux

What is plumbing?

Plumbing is a mechanism for passing messages between applications. It has a customizable set of rules (see plumb(6)) to process incoming messages and dispatch them to target applications.

The plumber(4) is the file server that performs the message processing and dispatch.

It is up to each application how it wishes to use this mechanism, but in the user-interface domain, the mechanism often allows the user to point to a file-name or URL and have the associated resource processed by an appropriate application

- 9p.io/wiki/plan9/using_plumbing/

Using ploomb

Bind to a key, ploomb

Highlight a word/sentence in your graphical application

Run ploomb

Select option from dmenu

Thanks

• Plumbing in Linux (a la Plan 9 from Bell Labs), by Luke Smith
  • Author of 'cabl' a BASH script to bring concept of plumbing to Linux, discusses using 'cabl' without a mouse
• Plumbing for language learners
  • Adds replete and more complex functions to Luke's 'cabl' script, tailored to language learning

Author

Forward complaints to christos@bauherren.ovh