WEB(1)

💅 WEB(1) — the one where your browser tabs just happen

okay so bestie, welcome to the web and wmail era — the little helpers from the General Commands Manual section 1 that handle your web pages and your mail for plumber. they're giving tiny, they're giving useful, they're giving iykyk 🫶

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

web url ...
wmail address

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

So web opens each of the named urls in a new web browser window. no cap. 🦋 and plot twist — any of those urls can be relative paths to files in the file system, and they get translated into file:// URLs before being handed over to the browser. cute, right? it's giving "yes i can handle your local files too."

web uses the browser's -remote option command-line option, and heads up bb: that requires an instance of the web browser to already be running. like, it's not gonna boot one from scratch for you, that's not the vibe. 🙈

the choice of browser is determined by the $BROWSER environment variable, which should be the name of the executable for your choice of web browser. the default is firefox. 🔥

and because the various browsers all use different syntaxes in their -remote options, the executable name is inspected to determine the type of browser. detective mode, honestly. the supported browsers are Opera, Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Firebird, and Mozilla. when possible, web opens each URL in a new tab rather than a new window — tab girlies stay winning 💅.

when run under Mac OS X, $BROWSER should be set to camino, firefox, or safari. web uses AppleScript to talk to the browser. 🍓 and if $BROWSER is not set, web looks for Firefox in /Applications/Firefox.app and uses it if found; otherwise it uses Safari.

wmail starts the composition of a new mail message to address. 📧

the choice of mailer is determined by the $MAILER environment variable. the supported mailers are:

• browser — invoke the mailer via a mailto:// URL passed to web

and the lil family lore: web and wmail are invoked as start commands in the plumber(4)'s rules for opening web pages and writing mail messages. main character energy from a two-line command fr fr. 👑

🎀 FILES 🎀

• /plumb/basic — plumbing rules using web and wmail

⭐ SOURCE ⭐

• /bin

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• plumber(4)

lowkey a reminder before you go: -remote means the browser has to already be up and running, so don't come for web when it's not. send the complaint to your window manager instead 😭

and that's the whole page bestie — web and wmail, out here living their best life under the General Commands Manual, page WEB(1), section 1 💖✨🎀