Method to download-open a hint

[OmegaLambda1998]

So I've been trying for a while to get a hint keybind that will essentially open the download prompt (:download {hint-url}) and then automatically prompt-open-download. If there's an pre-existing method to consistently do this, I'd love to know, as I haven't been able to find one. The ideas I had thusfar include:

• Does download-open accept a url? Nope, gotta download, then open.
• Okay, can I hint target download;; prompt-open-download? Nope, commands are asynchronous, so the download prompt isn't open when the prompt resolver is run.
• Same issue occurs with hint target run download --dest /tmp/whatever {hint-url} ;; download-open
• Fine, how about hint target run fake-key -g "download {hint-url}<Return><Ctrl-x>"! Nope, that causes a segfault (as does <Return><Return>)

The best workaround I found was hint target download ;; cmd-later <some arbitrary amount of time> prompt-open-download. Of course, this is unideal because either the cmd-later runs before I have selected a hint, or I have to awkwardly wait for the prompt to be accepted.

Some suggestion for improvements which could help with this (and in general coud make a lot of similar issues easier to handle

• An expansion to the --dest arg of download which has more options for how the download should be handled (download --dest [auto, file_selector, <destination string>] --action [open, pdfjs]) where auto -> Accept, open -> Open download, pdfjs -> Open download via PDF.js, file_selector -> Launch external file selector, and <destination_string> functions as --dest normally does. You could even add run, fill, userscript, and spawn handles which function similarly to hint, perhaps storing the filepath in {download_path} or the like.

• Better handling of command chains in hint, fake-key, etc... In particular some way to encapsulate a complete chain of commands, for instance hint target run "cmd args ;; cmd args \"arg_with_quotes\"" or something similar. Or even just being able to pass -- to indicate everything after that is the command chain (hint target run -- cmd ;; cmd ;; cmd, fake-key -g -- :cmd ;; cmd ;; cmd)

[The-Compiler]

As for the commandline-parsing, see #2017 - that alone wouldn't help here though, as chained commands are asynchronous, there is no notation of "run this after the download finished". See #3007 for that.

As for the segfault you mention, I cannot reproduce. Could you please open a separate issue with more detailed reproduction steps (e.g. what website you were trying on, and with which link)?

[OmegaLambda1998]

Cool, I had browsed those issues previously but wasn't certain if the state had changed. I will create a new issue for the segfault, so this one can be closed

[The-Compiler]

I suppose this one can stay open, you have a couple good points regarding e.g. the arguments for download there.