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EDBROWSE(1)		     General Commands Manual		     EDBROWSE(1)

NAME
     edbrowse -- Command Line editor, browser, and mail client

SYNOPSIS
     edbrowse [-v] [-h] [-c]
     edbrowse [-d[#]] [-f[#]] [-[p]m] [-[p]fm[#]]
     edbrowse [-d[#]] -m[#] addr1 addr2 ... file [attachments]
     edbrowse [-d[#]] [-e] [-c configFile] file1 file2 ...

DESCRIPTION
     edbrowse  is  a combination of editor, browser, and mail client text based.
     You can specify several mail accounts and indicate one by its index follow-
     ing the email options.

     The options are as follows:

     -v      print version

     -h      print help

     -c      without argument edit the default configuration file.  If the first
	     argument is -c filename , edbrowse uses it as config file

     -e      exit when it encounters an error, usually used by batch scripts

     -m      with no other arguments, interactive mail reader

     m[#]    specify an email account index [#]

     -f      fetch mail from all accounts, except the ones that you have  marked
	     nofetch.

     -f[#]   specify  an index [#] to fetch mail from a single account.  For in-
	     stance, -f1 will fetch mail from the first mail account

     -fm     retrieve and read email (combine the -f and -m options)

     -pm -pfm
	     like -f and -fm options but pass over the filters

     The debug options:

     -d0     silent

     -d1     show the sizes of files and web pages as they are read and written

     -d2     show the url as you call up a web page and http redirection

     -d3     javascript execution and errors: cookies, http  codes,  form  data,
	     and sql statements logged

     -d4     show  the	socket connections, http headers in and out, html syntax
	     errors as per tidy5, tree of nodes internal to edbrowse,  side  ef-
	     fects of running javascript and dynamic node linkage

     -d5     messages to and from javascript, url resolution, tidy html nodes

     -d6     show javascript to be executed

     -d7     reformatted regular expressions, breakline chunks

     -d8     text lines freed, debug garbage collection

     -d9     not used

FILES
     $home/.ebrc is the configuration file.

DIAGNOSTICS
     The  error  message is left in a buffer, which you can see by typing 'h' in
     the ed(1) style.

SEE ALSO
     ed(1) edbrowse is, at first glance, a reimplementation of ed

     Full guide userguide.html, type:

	   edbrowse /usr/local/share/doc/edbrowse/usersguide.html

AUTHORS
     edbrowse was primarily written by Karl Dahlke <eklhad@comcast.net>.

     This manual page was written by
     Alfonso Sabato Siciliano <asiciliano@FreeBSD.org>.

FreeBSD ports 15.quarterly	 August 25, 2023		     EDBROWSE(1)

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