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author | bptato <nincsnevem662@gmail.com> | 2023-09-20 16:26:43 +0200 |
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add manpages
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diff --git a/doc/cha.1 b/doc/cha.1 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..dcb32baf --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/cha.1 @@ -0,0 +1,123 @@ +.TH CHA 1 +.SH NAME +cha - the Chawan text-mode browser +.SH SYNOPSIS +.B cha +[\fBoptions\fR] +[\fIURL(s) \fRor \fIfile(s)\fR...] +.SH DESCRIPTION +Chawan is a text-mode browser. It can be used as a pager, or as a +web/FTP/gopher/file browser, and understands HTML, CSS and JavaScript. +Chawan can also be used to as a general text-based document viewer using +\fBmailcap\fR(5) extensions. + +Like \fBw3m\fR(1), Chawan organizes files and pages into buffers. The user +can freely open, duplicate, delete, and navigate between these. + +.SH ARGUMENTS +On invocation, Chawan looks through all arguments provided, and attempts +to open each file supplied. An error message is provided if opening a file +fails. If no files could successfully be opened, Chawan exits automatically. + +Chawan may also be started without specifying a file, if a file is provided +through a pipe. In this case, it may be useful to set the content type using +e.g. \fB\-T \fItext/html\fR. (The \fB-\fR pseudo-file argument, commonly accepted +by other commands, is simply ignored.) + +.SH OPTIONS +Command line options generally have both short forms (e.g. \fB\-d\fR) and long +forms (e.g. \fB\-\-dump\fR). + +Long forms must be introduced with two dashes; when +only a single dash is provided, each letter is parsed as a separate short form. +.br +(e.g. \fB\-abcd\fR is equivalent to \fB\-a \-b \-c \-d\fR, \fInot\fR +\fB\-\-abcd\fR.) + +.TP +\fB\-d, \-\-dump\fR +Start in headless mode, and sequentially print the opened files to stdout. +This option is implicitly enabled if stdout is not a tty (e.g. when piping +\fIcha\fR output). +.TP +\fB\-o, \-\-opt\fR \fIconfig\fR +Override configuration options. This accepts the configuration format is +described in \fBcha-config\fR(5), in other words the passed string must be +valid TOML. + +(The sole exception is quoting: to ease specifying string +parameters, unrecognized bare keywords are converted to strings. So this +works: \fB--opt\fR \fIabcd.option-name\fR=\fIoption-value\fR. However, symbols must +still be quoted.) +.TP +\fB\-c, \-\-css\fR \fIstylesheet\fR +Temporarily modify the user stylesheet. If a user stylesheet is already +being used, the stylesheet given is appended to that. +.TP +\fB\-T, \-\-type\fR \fIcontent-type\fR +Override the content type of all input files. Useful when the content type +cannot be guessed from the file extension, or when reading a non-plaintext +file from stdin. +.TP +\fB\-I, \-\-input-charset\fR \fIcharset\fR +Override the character set of all input files. Useful when Chawan is +incorrectly recognizing the input character set. (Note: if this happens +often, consider changing the default input charset recognition list +\fIencoding.document-charset\fR in the configuration.) +.TP +\fB\-O, \-\-output-charset\fR \fIcharset\fR +Override the output character set. This is a shortcut for +\fB\-o \fIencoding.display\-charset\fR=\fIcharset\fR. +.TP +\fB\-M, \-\-monochrome\fR +Override the output character set. This is a shortcut for +\fB\-o \fIdisplay.color\-mode\fR=\fIansi\fR. +.TP +\fB\-V, \-\-visual\fR +Start in visual mode: the page specified in \fIstart.visual-home\fR is opened. +.TP +\fB\-r, \-\-run\fR \fIscript\fR/\fIfile\fR +Execute the string provided as a JS script, or execute the supplied JS +file. If the file ends in .mjs, it is executed as an ES module. +.br +(To execute an inline script as a module, the following hack can be used: +.br +\fIcha \fB-r \fR'await new Promise(x => setTimeout(x, 1000)); +console.log("hello from ESM!"); //.mjs' +.br +In other words, we add a comment \fI//.mjs\fR to the end of the script.) +.TP +\fB\-h, \-\-help\fR +Print a short version of this page, then exit. +.TP +\fB\-v, \-\-version\fR +Print information about the browser's version, then exit. +.TP +\fB\-\-\fP +Interpret all following arguments as files. (e.g. if you have a file named +\fI\-o\fR, open it as \fIcha \fB--\fR \fI-o\fR. + +.SH ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES +Certain environment variables are read and used by Chawan. + +.TP +\fBHTTP_HOME\fR, \fBWWW_HOME\fR +When set, Chawan starts in visual mode by default and opens the page specified +by one of these variables. (\fBHTTP_HOME\fR takes precedence over +\fBWWW_HOME\fR.) +.TP +\fBCOLORTERM\fR +When set to \fI24bit\fR or \fItruecolor\fR, and the \fIdisplay.color-mode\fR +configuration option is set to \fIauto\fR, Chawan sets the color mode to +true color. +.TP +\fBTERM\fR +Used by Chawan to determine which termcap entry to load. When not set, +defaults to \fIdosansi\fR. +.TP +\fBEDITOR\fR +Used to determine the editor to use when the \fIexternal.editor\fR +configuration option is not set. + +.SH CONFIGURATION +Configuration options are described in \fBcha-config\fR(5). diff --git a/doc/config.md b/doc/config.md index 029f9a8a..2e989bd1 100644 --- a/doc/config.md +++ b/doc/config.md @@ -1,4 +1,6 @@ -# Configuration +% cha-config(5) | Configuration of Chawan + +# Configuration of Chawan Chawan supports configuration of various options like keybindings, user stylesheets, site preferences, etc. The configuration format is very similar @@ -21,6 +23,7 @@ environment variable is not set.) See the default configuration file in the res/ folder, and bonus configuration files in the bonus/ folder for further examples. +<!-- TOCSTART --> **Table of contents** * [Start](#start) @@ -38,6 +41,7 @@ examples. * [Appendix](#appendix) * [Regex handling](#regex-handling) +<!-- TOCEND --> ## Start Start-up options are to be placed in the `[start]` section. |