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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.

• Reading markdown files, like the ones in this wiki, also pdf files
• List the functions in your config file
• SMS Messaging (AKA Texting) with Edbrowse
• Edbrowse as a File Manager
• Traversing the directories and files in a zip archive
• Library of common emojis
• Gemini Space
• Playing music locally or from the Internet
• Accessing youtube videos with Edbrowse
• Accessing twitter.com
• Accessing facebook.com
• Imap Client, gmail in particular
• Sending email through edbrowse
• IRC Client
• Debugging complicated javascript issues
• Browse documents
• Save and load file positions
• Quit sessions
• Count matches
• Search across sessions
• Search with DuckDuckGo
• Search Wikipedia
• Search Wiktionary
• Dictionary Lookup
• Combine WordPress blog posts
• Write the current URL
• Manage nojs and js entries
• Send the same email message to each recipient in a list
• Print the length of the longest line
• Edit text
• Enclose the current line with tags
• 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 11
• Build edbrowse from source on 32-bit Ubuntu Mate 18.04
• Build edbrowse from source on Ubuntu 20.04
• Build edbrowse from source on Mac OS
• Build edbrowse from source on Raspberry Pi OS
• Copy and paste with the Microsoft Windows Clipboard when using the Windows Subsystem for Linux