From 8cee3dec34eeb02d3d8d03148836eceeea948977 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Emile Clark-Boman <eclarkboman@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2025 22:54:21 +1000
Subject: [PATCH] make webdev script open file or uri in browser

---
 scripts/webdev | 44 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
 mode change 100644 => 100755 scripts/webdev

diff --git a/scripts/webdev b/scripts/webdev
old mode 100644
new mode 100755
index 85e725c..6596def
--- a/scripts/webdev
+++ b/scripts/webdev
@@ -10,6 +10,9 @@ DEFAULT_BROWSER=${DEFAULT_BROWSER:-}
 # WARNING: Internal use only (do not modify!)
 # === Internal Environment === #
 QUIET=false
+BROWSER=""
+LOC=""
+LOC_TYPE="" # file or uri
 # ============================ #
 
 # Quiet Echo - doesn't echo if QUIET is set
@@ -20,33 +23,41 @@ qecho() {
 }
 
 # Argument Parsing
-for OPT in $@; do
-  case $OPT in
+for ARG in $@; do
+  case $ARG in
     -q|--quiet)
       QUIET=true
       ;;
     -*)
-      echo -e "[!] Unknown option \"$OPT\"\n$USAGE" >2
+      echo -e "[!] Unknown option \"$ARG\"\n$USAGE" >2
       exit 1
       ;;
     *)
-      echo "[!] Unknown option \"$OPT\"\n$USAGE" >2
-      exit 1
+      # first unknown (non-option) argument assumed $LOC
+      if [[ -n "$LOC" ]]; then
+        LOC="$OPT"        
+      else
+        echo "[!] Unknown option \"$ARG\"\n$USAGE" >2
+        exit 1
+      fi
       ;;
   esac
 done
+# ensure $LOC was set during argparse phase
+if [[ -z "$LOC" ]]; then
+  echo -e "[!] URI or file not specified\n$USAGE" >2
+fi
 
 # Use DEFAULT_BROWSER or check XDG default-web-browser or fail
-BROWSER=""
-if [ -n "$DEFAULT_BROWSER" ]; then
-  echo "[+] Browser manually set to $DEFAULT_BROWSER"  
-  echo " >  Skipped checking XDG default-web-browser"
+if [[ -n "$DEFAULT_BROWSER" ]]; then
+  qecho "[+] Browser manually set to $DEFAULT_BROWSER"  
+  qecho " >  Skipped checking XDG default-web-browser"
 else
-  echo "[*] Lookup XDG default-web-browser"
+  qecho "[*] Lookup XDG default-web-browser"
   BROWSER=$(xdg-settings get default-web-browser 2>/dev/null)
-  if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
+  if [[ $? -eq 0 ]]; then
     BROWSER=${BROWSER%%.desktop}
-    echo "[+] Browser automatically set to $BROWSER"
+    qecho "[+] Browser automatically set to $BROWSER"
   else
     echo "[!] Unknown browser girlypop :(" >2
     echo " >  Either:" >2
@@ -57,5 +68,10 @@ else
 fi
 echo # linebreak
 
-
-
+# Check if $LOC is a valid path
+REALPATH=$(realpath "$LOC" 2>/dev/null)
+if [ -f "$REALPATH"]; then
+  LOC="file://$LOC" # open file directly via "file" protocol
+fi
+# Substitutions left intentionally unquoted (allows for providing args)
+command $BROWSER $LOC