trivial-open-browser

Open a file or URL, on any system.

Usage

(trivial-open-browser:open-browser "https://common-lisp.net/")

By default, the library runs a shell command to open the browser on Windows, OS X, and Linux. You can customize this by setting the value of the *browser-function* special variable to a function that takes a URL as its argument and somehow opens the browser to that URL. The low-level shell command can be customized by setting the value of the *browser-program* special variable.

The principle applies to plain file names, too. If the argument to the open-browser function is a file name, the file should be opened in the associated application. For example,

(trivial-open-browser:open-browser
 (namestring (merge-pathnames
              (uiop:parse-unix-namestring "bar/foo.txt")
              (user-homedir-pathname))))

License

Copyright (C) 2014, 2015, 2016 Fernando Borretti
Copyright (C) 2025 Ralph Schleicher

Licensed under the MIT License.