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Here I talked about my idea to use a textfile to handle bookmarks and the wmiiplumb (now wmiipsel tool) to write them to a file.
Julias Plenz did some modifications and now I adapted the script to wmii-current (aka wmii-3 in a few days).

Download the new bookmark script on:
http://nion.modprobe.de/bookmark.sh

So far so good, now I took over garbeams idea to use it with wmiimenu to display them and its really a pleasure.
wmiimenu is a generic, highly customizable, and efficient menu for the X Window System, originally designed for wmii(1). It supports arbitrary, user defined menu contents.
The cool thing is that I call a keybinding in my WM now and I can type parts of the URL or TITLE to get the link and press ENTER. Then opera opens it in a new tab.
Show me one bookmark handler in a browser which offers you soo much comfort
This simple thing is done with:


#!/bin/sh

TEMP=`cat $HOME/bookmarks.txt | wmiimenu | sed -e 's/.\+\ :\(.\+\)$/\1/g'`
/usr/bin/opera -newpage "$TEMP"