Vimpossible
Since I’m using vimprobable for the most part of browsing and I want to use Tor for everything, that doesn’t need lots of bandwidth I’ve been looking for a nice solution to start vimprobable with and without Proxy enabled.
Since it uses the http_proxy variable for this I tried to set a shortcut in wmiirc to start vimprobable in Tor mode which wouldn’t work since wmii tries to execute each part of ‘http_proxy=”127.0.0.1:8118″ vimprobable’.
So I set up two small scripts in /usr/bin and called them vimpossible and vimpossible2.
It’s just
- #!/bin/bash
- export http_proxy=”127.0.0.1:8118″
- vimprobable $1
nothing fancy 
Now I can start vimprobable using tor just by using the ‘vimpossible’ command.
Need to find a way to nicely paste code here…
Why not just use alias?
alias vimpossible=’export HTTP_PROXY=”127.0.0.1:8118″ vimprobable”
alias vimpossible2=’vimprobable’
Or whatever vimpossible2 does
Hum… You’re right
I was convinced of having had problems with this method, though. I tried it without export before but also that seems to work. (Update: The problems were with dmenu. It doesn’t support aliases afaik)
I should check if I can get dmenu to source my bashrc (because it doesn’t right now). Actually this would be the main problem. But I guess my solution is really obsolete
Thanks for leaving the first comment here!