NAME¶
edbrowse - text editor and web browser
SYNOPSIS¶
edbrowse [
file1 ] [
file2 ]
...
edbrowse [
url1 ] [
url2 ]
...
DESCRIPTION¶
(This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the
original program does not have a man page. Instead the program is documented
in detail in the HTML documentation that accompanies the program; see below.)
edbrowse is a line-oriented text editor very similar to
ed(1), It
is used to create, display, modify and otherwise manipulate text files.
In addition
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.
If
edbrowse is invoked with a
file argument, then a copy of
file is read into the editor's buffer. If it is invoked with a
url argument, then the
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
file or
url itself.
Please refer to
ed(1) for further details regarding the editing commands.
Explanation of the browsing functions can be found in the HTML documentation.
EXAMPLES¶
To read the HTML documentation on a Debian system you can do
- edbrowse file:///usr/share/doc/edbrowse/edbdoc.html
To read (say) 20 lines of the buffer at a time starting from the top use the
command
`1z20' followed by repeating
`z' to scroll another 20
lines at a time.
To quit the editor completely type
`qt' . Upon quitting
edbrowse,
any changes not explicitly saved with a
`w' command are lost. The
`w' command does not apply to URLs but one can save the corresponding
buffer to a file by the command
w file.
OPTIONS¶
- -h
- Display the usage message.
- -e
- Batch mode. This options causes edbrowse to exit when it encounters
an error.
- -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
dbx command with x a value betwen 0 and 9.
- -c
- Edit config file. This command supresses the processing of the
configuration file $HOME/.ebrc and starts editing it instead. This
option is useful if this file is syntactically incorrect or otherwise
corrupted.
FILES¶
- $HOME/.ebrc
- Configuration file. The file which edbrowse reads when it starts
up. If the file exists then it must be syntactically correct.
DIAGNOSTICS¶
When an error occurs, if
edbrowse it prints a `?' and returns to command
mode. An explanation of the last error can be printed with the
`h'
(help) command.
Attempting to quit
edbrowse with the
`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.
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.
SEE ALSO¶
ed(1),
sed(1),
pcrepattern(3).
The provides greater detail about the program.
AUTHORS¶
This manual page was originally written by Kapil Hari Paranjape
<kapil@imsc.res.in>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but it may be used
by others).
The
edbrowse program is written by Karl Dahlke <eklhad@gmail.com>.
The author maintains for the program.