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✨ NAME ✨

/executable — the Profanity /executable command, bestie 💅

yes this is literally a whole man page for one lil slash command and honestly? she earned it.

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

okay so, you know how you want a certain command to trigger a certain program? 🌸 That's what this is. You're configuring which executable gets called when you run a particular command. Set it once, vibe forever. ✨

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

/executable avatar set <cmdtemplate>

/executable avatar default

/executable urlopen set <cmdtemplate>

/executable urlopen default

/executable urlsave set <cmdtemplate>

/executable urlsave default

/executable editor set <cmdtemplate>

/executable editor default

/executable vcard_photo set <cmdtemplate>

/executable vcard_photo default

🫶 ARGUMENTS 🫶

  • avatar set — tells Profanity what program to run when you do /avatar open. Point it at your fave image viewer, no cap. 🖼️
  • avatar default — puts everything back the way it was, we're restoring the default settings 🫶
  • urlopen set — sets the executable that gets run by /url open. It takes a command template, and inside that template %u gets swapped for the URL and %p gets swapped for the path, respectively. 🔥
  • urlopen default — restore to default settings, back to factory vibes ✨
  • urlsave set — sets the executable that gets run by /url save. Takes a command template that swaps %u and %p for the URL and the path respectively. 💾
  • urlsave default — uses the built-in download method for saving, so like, Profanity handles it herself, periodt 👑
  • editor set — sets the editor used with /editor. Heads up bestie: it needs a terminal editor, or a script that launches a graphical one. Don't just throw a GUI at it and expect ✨ magic ✨
  • editor default — restore to default settings, we love a reset 🎀
  • vcard_photo set — sets the executable run by /vcard photo open. Takes a command template where %p gets replaced with the path 📁
  • vcard_photo default — restore to default settings (yes, again, it's iconic) 💜

🌸 EXAMPLES 🌸

/executable avatar xdg-open

/executable urlopen set "xdg-open %u"

/executable urlopen set "firefox %u"

/executable urlopen default

/executable urlsave set "wget %u -O %p"

/executable urlsave set "curl %u -o %p"

/executable urlsave default

/executable vcard_photo set "feh %p"

/executable editor set "emacsclient -t"
okay quick note: if you're copy-pasting these, keep the quotes around the templates, they're doing work 💅

that's the whole thing!! go set your executables, you're doing amazing, main character energy only 🌈🦋

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