.\" Man page for edbrowse .\" .\" Copyright (C), 2007 Kapil Hari Paranjape .\" .\" You may distribute under the terms of the GNU General Public .\" License as specified in the file /usr/share/common-licences/GPLv2 .\" that comes with the Debian distribution. .\" .\" Written by Kapil Hari Paranjape .\" based on the edbdoc.html file written by Karl Dahlke. .\" Include a Macro From Branden Robinson's WTFM.PDF .\" slightly modified by Didier Spaier for the Slint pro.ect .de URI \\$2 \(la URI: \\$1 \(ra\\$3 .. .if \n[.g] .mso www.tmac .\" End if Include .TH edbrowse 1 09-November-2018 "edbrowse 3.7.4" .SH NAME edbrowse \- text editor and web browser .SH SYNOPSIS .BR edbrowse .RI "[ " "file1" " ]" .RI "[ " "file2" " ]" .I ... .LP .BR edbrowse .RI "[ " "url1" " ]" .RI "[ " "url2" " ]" .I " ..." .LP .SH DESCRIPTION .BR Edbrowse is a combination editor, browser, and mail client 100% text based. The interface is similar to /bin/ed, though there are many more features, such as editing multiple files simultaneously, and rendering html. This program was originally written for blind users, but many sighted users have taken advantage of the unique scripting capabilities of this program, which can be found nowhere else. A batch job, or cron job, can access web pages on the internet, submit forms, and send email, with no human intervention whatsoever. edbrowse can tap into databases through odbc. Primarily written by Karl Dahlke. Complete documentation can be found in the user's guide: .BR /usr/doc/edbrowse*/usersguide.html This page only presents some of edbrowse features. .PP .BR edbrowse is a line-oriented text editor very similar to .BR ed (1), It is used to create, display, modify and otherwise manipulate text files. .PP In addition .BR edbrowse can be used to display web pages and edit the contents of these pages. It supports the use of forms and Javascript in web pages. .PP If .BR edbrowse is invoked with a .I file argument, then a copy of .I file is read into the editor's buffer. If it is invoked with a .I url argument, then the .I url is read into the editor's buffer and the HTML is rendered as text. Changes are made to this copy and not directly to .I file or .I url itself. .PP Please refer to .BR ed (1) for further details regarding the editing commands. Explanation of the browsing functions can be found in the HTML documentation. .PP .SH EXAMPLES To read the HTML documentation you can do .IP .BR "edbrowse /usr/doc/edbrowse*/usersguide.html" .PP To read (say) 20 lines of the buffer at a time starting from the top use the command .I `0z20' followed by repeating .I `z' to scroll another 20 lines at a time. .PP To quit the editor completely type .I `qt' \&. Upon quitting .BR edbrowse , any changes not explicitly saved with a .I `w' command are lost. The .I `w' command does not apply to URLs but one can save the corresponding buffer to a file by the command \fIw file\fR. .PP .SH OPTIONS .TP .B \-h Display the usage message. .TP .B \-e Batch mode. This option causes .BR edbrowse to exit when it encounters an error. .TP .B \-d? Debug level. Can be set to a value between 0 and 9. The default is 1 which prints the sizes of buffers. Some people like 2 which prints out URLs as they are retrieved. This value can be changed within the editor with the .I dbx command with x a value between 0 and 9. .TP .B \-c Edit config file. This command suppresses the processing of the configuration file .I $HOME/.ebrc and starts editing it instead. This option is useful if this file is syntactically incorrect or otherwise corrupted. .PP .SH FILES .TP 20 .I $HOME/.ebrc Configuration file. The file which .B edbrowse reads when it starts up. If the file exists then it must be syntactically correct. .PP .SH DIAGNOSTICS When an error occurs, if .BR edbrowse it prints a `?' and returns to command mode. An explanation of the last error can be printed with the .I `h' (help) command. .PP Attempting to quit .B edbrowse with the .I `q' command or trying to edit another file before writing a modified buffer results in an error. If the command is entered a second time, it succeeds, but any changes to the buffer are lost. .PP .SH BUGS This manual page is not complete. Users should refer to the HTML documentation for fuller details of the configuration options and for details of the use of edbrowse. .PP .SH SEE ALSO .IR ed (1), .IR sed (1), .IR pcrepattern (3). .PP The .URL "/usr/doc/edbrowse*/usersguide.html" "HTML documentation" " " provides greater detail about the program. .PP .SH AUTHORS This manual page was originally written by Kapil Hari Paranjape , for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but it may be used by others). .PP The .B edbrowse program is written by Karl Dahlke . The author maintains .URL "http://edbrowse.org" "a web site" " " for the program. .