wikicurses.conf(5)

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💅 NAME 💅

wikicurses — literally a curses interface for MediaWiki. And this, bestie, is wikicurses.conf(5) from the File Formats Manual: the whole page about its config file. No cap, it's giving “tiny text file, big main-character energy.” 🫶

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

Here’s where the config can live:

/etc/wikicurses.conf

~/.config/wikicurses/config

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

The config file for wikicurses is divided into sections. The "general" section contains the general settings, and all the other sections specify individual wikis. Periodt. 💖

🎀 EXAMPLE 🎀

Okay, here’s the whole vibe in one config:

[general]
default = Wikipedia
mouse = False
hide_references = False

[keymap]
q = quit
c = contents
o = open
h = back
l = forward
left = back
right = forward

[Wikipedia]
url = http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php
username = johndoe
password = 1234

[ArchWiki]
url = https://wiki.archlinux.org/api.php

👑 OPTIONS 👑

general 🫶

  • default — the name of the wiki to use by default. Your main-character wiki, basically. ✨
  • mouse — support mouse input. With this enabled, you will have to hold down Shift to select text. Yes, fr. 🖱️
  • hide_references — hide the References section at the bottom of the page and strip citations from the text. Bye, clutter. 💅

keymap 🎹

This section configures the keyboard bindings of wikicurses, in the format key=command. command can be any ex command supported by wikicurses. Lowkey the best part? Custom keys. 🔥

Other Sections 🌈

Other sections are treated as wiki entries. The url is the url for api.php on the wiki. The username and password are required for editing. That’s the whole edit-access situation, iykyk. 👑

  • url — the url to api.php on the MediaWiki site. Exact-path energy. ⭐

That’s the tea ☕: this is wikicurses.conf(5) from the File Formats Manual, dated 2015-02-22. Go make your config cute, bestie. 🦋💖

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