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Welcome

Welcome to the edbrowse wiki! This is a place where everyone is welcome to share documentation related to edbrowse, the command-line editor browser.

Philosophy of edbrowse

The command line philosophy, why I wrote edbrowse in the first place. Also available in French.

Tips for Performing Common Tasks

This section is a knowledge base, providing links to articles describing how to perform various tasks from an edbrowse-centric environment. For playing music or audio files, or rendering files such as pdf, please see the plugins directory in the edbrowse project. It includes supported plugins and scripts that you can call directly from your edbrowse config file.

• List the functions in your config file
• SMS Messaging (AKA Texting) with Edbrowse
• Edbrowse as a File Manager
• Gemini Space
• Accessing twitter.com
• Accessing facebook.com
• Imap Client, gmail in particular
• Sending email through edbrowse
• IRC Client
• Debugging complicated javascript issues
• Save and load file positions
• Work with multiple sessions
• Count matches
• Search with DuckDuckGo
• Search Wikipedia
• Search Wiktionary
• Dictionary Lookup
• Sign into this GitHub wiki
• Combine WordPress blog posts
• Write the current URL
• Manage nojs and js entries
• Send the same email message to each recipient in a list
• Edit text with Readline
• Search text
• Enclose the current line with tags
• Remove clutter
• Add or remove a trailing newline
• Calculate with dc
• Compare with saved file
• List unknown words
• Timer
• Manage APT packages
• Build edbrowse from source on Debian or Ubuntu
• Build edbrowse from source on MacOS
• Build edbrowse from source on Raspberry Pi OS
• Copy and paste with the Microsoft Windows Clipboard when using the Windows Subsystem for Linux
• Render a page with Chrome