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| author | tjp <tjp@ctrl-c.club> | 2024-01-03 08:29:40 -0700 |
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| committer | tjp <tjp@ctrl-c.club> | 2024-01-03 08:29:40 -0700 |
| commit | 6c9558c0d2201d933b1d396febeb6e70ceaad058 (patch) | |
| tree | 565b8b048fc3e63b6c2eb6892a6f356f0c3c15aa /README.gmi | |
| parent | 4b3dd896fb0c157e0d727f39ccb6d940a75d1cce (diff) | |
working basic navigation and marks
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1 files changed, 37 insertions, 11 deletions
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ These posts offer up some helpful but uncommon ideas for a browser: ## Commands -The default action is "go", so just putting an integer or URL in the command bar goes there. +The default action for a completely empty command is "print", which will display the current page. If, however, a URL is entered then "go" is implied. * re[load]: re-request and re-display the current page * r[oot]: go to the root of the current site, or /~username root if in a tilde-path @@ -22,16 +22,33 @@ The default action is "go", so just putting an integer or URL in the command bar * b[ack]: back in history * f[orward]: forward in history * n[ext]: go to the next link in the previous history page - see below (like "back" followed by "go N+1" where N is the link index we used to get to the current page) -* p[revious]: go to the previous link in the previous history page - see below +* pre[vious]: go to the previous link in the previous history page - see below * u[p]: go to the parent directory of the current page * g[o] <link>: visits a URL, which may be an integer in which case it's the numbered link on the current page, or an absolute or relative URL * hi[story]: display the current history -* l[ess]: pipe the current page's content through less(1) +* p[rint]: display the current page +* l[inks]: filter the page down to just a list of its links * |<shell command>: pipe the page's content through any shell command, executed with "sh -c" * s[ave] <path>: save the page's content at a particular filesystem path * h[elp] [<command>]: show a help screen, optionally the one about a specific command * m[ark]: bookmarks, see below * t[our]: tours, seee below +* q[uit]: exit the browser + +## URL specifiers + +Commands which take URLs can take them in a variety of forms: +* full absolute URLs with or without a scheme +* relative URLs interpreted relative to the current page +* "." always refers to the current page's URL +* positive integers - the link index shown next to links on the current page +* "m:<name>" - the link saved by a mark with a specific name +* "t:<N>" - the URL in the default tour at index N +* "t<X>:<N>" - The URL in the X tour at index N + +The "tour add" command additionally also supports ranges of URLs in these forms: +* "x-y" where x and y are integers, this expands to the range of links in the current page from x to y, inclusive on both ends +* "*" adds all the links on the current page ## Next/Previous @@ -46,9 +63,9 @@ On any other nagivation, this context is cleared and next/previous actions won't ## Marks * named "m[ark]" instead of "bookmark" so "m" is used instead of interfering with "back/b" -* "mark a[dd] <url> <name>" adds a single mark. <name> can contain slashes to create a heirarchy +* "mark a[dd] <name> <url>" adds a single mark. <name> can contain slashes to create a heirarchy * "mark g[o] <name>" visits the given url -* "mark l[s]" shows the list of marks +* "mark l[ist]" shows the list of marks * "mark X" with a non-command argument defaults to "mark go X" ## Tour @@ -56,19 +73,28 @@ On any other nagivation, this context is cleared and next/previous actions won't * "t[our]" on it's own defaults to "tour next" * "tour x y z", where x is not a valid command name, defaults to "tour add x y z" -* "tour a[dd]" allows any valid links as arguments including both integer indices and absolute or relative URLs -* additional URL specifiers specific to "tour add" are "x-y" which expands to the integer range between x and y (inclusive on both ends), and "*" meaning everything on the current page -* the variant "tour add n[ext] x y z" adds its items to the next position in the tour, before anything else that was still to come +* "tour a[dd]" allows any valid links as additional arguments - see "URL specifiers" above for details +* the variant "tour add n[ext] x y z" adds items next in the tour after the current position * "tour next" visits the next link in the current tour * "tour sh[ow]" prints the current tour and where we currently are * "tour c[lear]" empties the current tour -* "tour l[s]" lists the default tour and any non-empty letter tours +* "tour l[ist]" lists the default tour and any non-empty letter tours * "tour p[revious]" goes back to the previous link in the tour -* "tour g[o]" takes an index and jumps to that position in the tour +* "tour g[o] i" takes an index and jumps to that position in the tour -* "tour s[et]" takes a single lower-case alphabetic character to select *which* tour should become active +* "tour s[et] x" takes a single lower-case alphabetic character to select *which* tour should become active * without this letter, it re-selects the default tour * the default tour is the empty one. it is always active and empty upon startup * the other letter-identified tours have their state preserved when the program exits + +## Config file + +The config file is located at XDG_DATA_HOME/x-1/config.toml. This is usually under .local/share in your home directory. + +It contains the following configuration options: + +* default_scheme (string): the URL scheme to use in the "go" command when none is provided. default "gemini" +* soft_wrap (int): the number of columns to wrap, or -1 to not add soft wrapping. default 72 +* download_folder (string): path at which to store files saved by the "save" command. default $HOME |
