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bombadillo(1) General Operation Manual bombadillo(1) NAME bombadillo - a non-web browser SYNOPSIS bombadillo [options] [url] DESCRIPTION bombadillo is a non-web browser for the terminal. It features a full terminal user interface, vim-like keybindings, document pager, config- urable settings, and a robust command selection. bombadillo supports the following protocols as first class citizens: gopher, gemini, finger, and local (a users file system). Support for telnet, http and https is also available via integration with third party applications. OPTIONS -h Display usage help and exit. Provides a list of all command line options with a short description and exits. -t Set the window title to 'Bombadillo'. Can be used in a GUI envi- ronment, however not all terminals support this feature. -v Display version information and exit. PROTOCOL SUPPORT All of the below protocols are supported. With the exception of gopher, the protocol name must be present as the scheme component of a url in the form of [protocol]://[the rest of the url]. gopher Gopher is the default protocol for bombadillo. Any textual item types will be visited and shown to the user and any non-text types will be downloaded. Type 7 (querying) is fully supported. As the default protocol, any url that is not prefixed with the scheme section of a url (gopher:// for example) will be treated as gopher urls. gemini Gemini is supported, but as a new protocol with an incomplete specification, features may change over time. At present Bom- badillo supports TLS with a trust on first use certificate pin- ning system (similar to SSH). Gemini maps and other text types are rendered in the browser and non-text types will be down- loaded. finger Basic support is provided for the finger protocol. The format is: finger://[[username@]][hostname]. Many servers still support finger and it can be fun to see if friends are online or read about the users whose phlogs you follow. local Local is similar to the file protocol used in web browsers or the like, with a smaller set of features. Users can use the lo- cal scheme to view files on their local system. Directories are supported as viewable text object as well as any files. Wild- cards and globbing are not supported. Using ~ to represent a user's home directory, as well as relative paths, are supported. The color theme has no effect on this protocol and all terminal escape sequences will be rendered to the screen literally. telnet Telnet is not supported directly, but addresses will be followed and opened as a subprocess by whatever telnet client a user sets in their settings (defaulting to telnet). In some cases this be- havior may be buggy. http, https Neither of the world wide web protocols are supported directly. bombadillo can be configured to open web links in a user's de- fault graphical web browser. It is also possible to display web content directly in bombadillo using lynx, w3m, or elinks termi- nal web browsers to render pages. Opening http/https links is opt-in only, controlled by the webmode setting. Opening links in a default graphical web browser will only work in a GUI environment. Displaying web content directly in bombadillo requires lynx, w3m or elinks terminal web browsers are installed on the system. COMMANDS KEY COMMANDS These commands work as a single keypress anytime bombadillo is not tak- ing in a line based command or when the user is being prompted for ac- tion. This is the default command mode of bombadillo. b, h Navigate back one place in your document history. B Toggle the bookmarks panel open/closed. d Scroll down an amount corresponding to 75% of your terminal win- dow height in the current document. f, l Navigate forward one place in your document history. g Scroll to the top of the current document. G Scroll to the bottom of the current document. j Scroll down a single line in the current document. k Scroll up a single line. n Jump to next found text item. N Jump to previous found text item. q Quit bombadillo. R Reload the current page (does not destroy forward history). 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 0 Quick navigation to the first 10 links on a page. The 0 key will navigate to the link numbered '10', all other numbers navigate to their matching link number. U Move up a level in the current url path. /mydir/mysubdir/my- file.txt would become /mydir/mysubdir/, and so on. u Scroll up an amount corresponding to 75% of your terminal window height in the current document. / Search for text within current document. / followed by a text query will highlight and allow navigation of found text. / with an empty query will clear the current query. <tab> Toggle the scroll focus between the bookmarks panel and the doc- ument panel. Only has an effect if the bookmarks panel is open. <spc> Enter line command mode. Once a line command is input, the mode will automatically revert to key command mode. : Alias for <spc>. Enter line command mode. LINE COMMANDS These commands are typed in by the user to perform an action of some sort. As listed in KEY COMMANDS, this mode is initiated by pressing : or <space>. The command names themselves are not case sensitive, though the arguments supplied to them may be. [url] Navigates to the requested url. [link id] Follows a link on the current document with the given number. add [url] [name...] Adds the url as a bookmarks labeled by name. a can be used in- stead of the full add. add [link id] [name...] Adds the url represented by the link id within the current docu- ment as a bookmark labeled by name. a can be used instead of the full add. add . [name...] Adds the current document's url as a bookmark labeled by name. a can be used instead of the full add. bookmarks Toggles the bookmarks panel open/closed. Alias for KEY COMMAND B. b can be used instead of the full bookmarks. bookmarks [bookmark id] Navigates to the url represented by the bookmark matching book- mark id. b can be entered, rather than the full bookmarks. check [link id] Displays the url corresponding to a given link id for the cur- rent document. c can be used instead of the full check. check [setting name] Displays the current value for a given configuration setting. c can be used instead of the full check. delete [bookmark id] Deletes the bookmark matching the bookmark id. d can be used in- stead of the full delete. help Navigates to the gopher based help page for bombadillo. ? can be used instead of the full help. home Navigates to the document set by the homeurl setting. h can be entered, rather than the full home. jump Navigates to the previous page in history from the current page. Useful for keeping the current page in your history while still browsing. j can be used instead of the full jump. jump [history location] Navigates to the given history location. The history location should be an integer between 0 and 20. j can be used instead of the full jump. purge * Deletes all pinned gemini server certificates. p can be used in- stead of the full purge. purge [host name] Deletes the pinned gemini server certificate for the given host- name. p can be used instead of the full purge. quit Quits bombadillo. Alias for KEY COMMAND q. q can be used instead of the full quit. reload Requests the current document from the server again. This does not break forward history the way entering the url again would. r can be used instead of the full reload. search Queries the user for search terms and submits a search to the search engine set by the searchengine setting. search [keywords...] Submits a search to the search engine set by the searchengine setting, with the query being the provided keyword(s). set [setting name] [value] Sets the value for a given configuration setting. s can be used instead of the full set. version Shows the current Bombadillo version number. write . Writes the current document to a file. The file is named by the last component of the url path. If the last component is blank or / a default name will be used. The file saves to the direc- tory set by the savelocation setting. w can be entered rather than the full write. write [url] Writes data from a given url to a file. The file is named by the last component of the url path. If the last component is blank or / a default name will be used. The file saves to the direc- tory set by the savelocation setting. w can be entered rather than the full write. write [link id] Writes data from a given link id in the current document to a file. The file is named by the last component of the url path. If the last component is blank or / a default name will be used. The file saves to the directory set by the savelocation setting. w can be entered rather than the full write. FILES bombadillo keeps a hidden configuration file in a user's XDG configura- tion directory. The file is a simplified ini file titled .bom- badillo.ini. It is generated when a user first loads bombadillo and is updated with bookmarks and settings as a user adds them. The file can be directly edited, but it is best to use the SET command to update settings whenever possible. To return to the state of a fresh install, simply remove the file and a new one will be generated with the bom- badillo defaults. On some systems an administrator may set the configu- ration file location to somewhere other than the default setting. If you do not see the file where you expect it, or if your settings are not being read, try :check configlocation to see where the file should be, or contact your system administrator for more information. SETTINGS The following is a list of the settings that bombadillo recognizes, as well as a description of their valid values. configlocation The path to the directory that the .bombadillo.ini configuration file is stored in. This is a read only setting and cannot be changed with the set command, but it can be read with the check command. defaultscheme The scheme that should be used when no scheme is present in a given URL. gopher, gemini, http, and https are valid values. geminiblocks Determines how to treat preformatted text blocks in text/gemini documents. block will show the contents of the block, alt will show any available alt text for the block, both will show both the content and the alt text, and neither will show neither. Un- like other settings, a change to this value will require a fresh page load to see the change. homeurl The url that bombadillo navigates to when the program loads or when the home or h LINE COMMAND is issued. This should be a valid url. If a scheme/protocol is not included, gopher will be assumed. maxwidth The number of characters at which lines should be wrapped. If this is bigger than the available terminal width, the full width of the terminal will be used. If a non-integer or an integer less than 10 is given, a default value will be used. savelocation The path to the directory that bombadillo should write files to. This must be a valid filepath for the system, must be a direc- tory, and must already exist. searchengine The url to use for the LINE COMMAND search. Should be a valid search path that terms may be appended to. telnetcommand Tells the browser what command to use to start a telnet session. Should be a valid command, including any flags. The address be- ing navigated to will be added to the end of the command. theme Can toggle between visual modes. Valid values are normal, color, and inverse. When set to inverse, the normal mode colors are in- verted. Both normal and inverse modes filter out terminal escape sequences. When set to color, Bombadillo will render terminal escape sequences representing colors when it finds them in docu- ments. timeout The number of seconds after which connections to gopher or gem- ini servers should time out if the server has not responded. webmode Controls behavior when following web links. The following values are valid: none will disable following web links, gui will have the browser attempt to open web links in a user's default graph- ical web browser; lynx, w3m, and elinks will have the browser attempt to use the selected terminal web browser to handle the rendering of web pages and will display the pages directly in Bombadillo. BUGS There are very likely bugs. Many known bugs can be found in the issues section of bombadillo's source code repository (see links). LINKS bombadillo maintains a presence in the following locations: Source Code Repository https://tildegit.org/sloum/bombadillo Web Homepage http://bombadillo.colorfield.space Gopher Homepage gopher://bombadillo.colorfield.space AUTHORS bombadillo was primarily developed by sloum, with kind and patient as- sistance from ~asdf and jboverf. 27 OCT 2019 bombadillo(1)
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