simply serve directory

.functions

@@ -23,4 +23,13 @@ function quit() {
 # Better man
 function man() {
     /usr/bin/man $@ || (help $@ 2> /dev/null && help $@ | less)
-}
+}
+
+# Start an HTTP server from a directory, optionally specifying the port
+function server() {
+    local port="${1:-8000}"
+    open "http://localhost:${port}/"
+    # Set the default Content-Type to `text/plain` instead of `application/octet-stream`
+    # And serve everything as UTF-8 (although not technically correct, this doesn’t break anything for binary files)
+    python -c $'import SimpleHTTPServer;\nmap = SimpleHTTPServer.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler.extensions_map;\nmap[""] = "text/plain";\nfor key, value in map.items():\n\tmap[key] = value + ";charset=UTF-8";\nSimpleHTTPServer.test();' "$port"
+}