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.\" Man page for edbrowse
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.\" Copyright (C), 2007 Kapil Hari Paranjape
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.\" You may distribute under the terms of the GNU General Public
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.\" License as specified in the file /usr/share/common-licences/GPLv2
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.\" that comes with the Debian distribution.
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.\" Written by Kapil Hari Paranjape
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.\" based on the edbdoc.html file written by Karl Dahlke.
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.TH edbrowse 1 2007-05-09 "edbrowse 3.2.1"
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edbrowse \- text editor and web browser
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(This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution
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because the original program does not have a man page. Instead the
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program is documented in detail in the HTML documentation that
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accompanies the program; see below.)
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is a line-oriented text editor very similar to
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It is used to create, display, modify and otherwise manipulate text
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can be used to display web pages and edit the
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contents of these pages. It supports the use of forms and Javascript in
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argument, then a copy of
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is read into the editor's buffer. If it is invoked with a
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is read into the editor's buffer and the HTML is rendered as text.
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Changes are made to this copy and not directly to
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for further details regarding the editing commands. Explanation of the
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browsing functions can be found in the HTML documentation.
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To read the HTML documentation on a Debian system you can do
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.BR "edbrowse file:///usr/share/doc/edbrowse/edbdoc.html"
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To read (say) 20 lines of the buffer at a time starting from
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the top use the command
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to scroll another 20 lines at a time.
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To quit the editor completely type
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any changes not explicitly saved with a
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command does not apply to URLs but one can save the corresponding
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buffer to a file by the command \fIw file\fR.
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Display the usage message.
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Batch mode. This options causes
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to exit when it encounters an error.
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Debug level. Can be set to a value between 0 and 9. The default is 1
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which prints the sizes of buffers. Some people like 2 which prints
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out URLs as they are retrieved. This value can be changed within the
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command with x a value betwen 0 and 9.
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Edit config file. This command supresses the processing of the
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and starts editing it instead. This option is useful if this file
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is syntactically incorrect or otherwise corrupted.
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Configuration file. The file which
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reads when it starts up. If the file exists then it must be
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syntactically correct.
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When an error occurs,
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prints a `?' and returns to command mode.
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An explanation of the last error can be
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command or trying to edit another file before writing a modified buffer
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results in an error. If the command is entered a second time, it succeeds,
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but any changes to the buffer are lost.
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This manual page is not complete. Users should refer to the HTML
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documentation for fuller details of the
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configuration options and for details of the use of edbrowse.
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.URL "/usr/share/doc/edbrowse/edbdoc.html" "HTML documentation" " "
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provides greater detail about the program.
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This manual page was originally written by Kapil Hari Paranjape
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for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but it may be used by others).
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program is written by Karl Dahlke
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<ehlhad@comcast.net>. The author maintains
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.URL "http://www.eklhad.net/linux/app/" "a web page" " "
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