package browser

import "github.com/pkg/browser"

Package browser provides helpers to open files, readers, and urls in a browser window.

The choice of which browser is started is entirely client dependant.

Index ¶

• Variables
• func OpenFile(path string) error
• func OpenReader(r io.Reader) error
• func OpenURL(url string) error

Examples ¶

• OpenFile
• OpenReader
• OpenURL

Variables ¶

var Stderr io.Writer = os.Stderr

Stderr is the io.Writer to which executed commands write standard error.

var Stdout io.Writer = os.Stdout

Stdout is the io.Writer to which executed commands write standard output.

Functions ¶

func OpenFile ¶

func OpenFile(path string) error

OpenFile opens new browser window for the file path.

{
	OpenFile("index.html")
}

func OpenReader ¶

func OpenReader(r io.Reader) error

OpenReader consumes the contents of r and presents the results in a new browser window.

{
	// https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/13871
	const quote = `There was a night when winds from unknown spaces
whirled us irresistibly into limitless vacum beyond all thought and entity.
Perceptions of the most maddeningly untransmissible sort thronged upon us;
perceptions of infinity which at the time convulsed us with joy, yet which
are now partly lost to my memory and partly incapable of presentation to others.`
	r := strings.NewReader(quote)
	OpenReader(r)
}

func OpenURL ¶

func OpenURL(url string) error

OpenURL opens a new browser window pointing to url.

{
	const url = "http://golang.org/"
	OpenURL(url)
}

Source Files ¶

browser.go browser_linux.go

Directories ¶