Fenestro is a simple OS X app that takes HTML in via the command line, and renders it in a window.
Common use cases:
Saving terminal output for reference
It’s not uncommon to run a grep, ls, or find on the command line which you end up scrolling back up to again and again as you take action based on its output. Fenestro will let you shunt that output into a window for reference. Just pipe it through an app like aha which can convert the output to HTML.
# save off a list of all the instances of "foo"
ack --color foo activesupport/test | aha | fenestro
Quick view of HTML files on your system
Fenestro provides an easy way to quickly view HTML files on the command line. Maybe you’ve downloaded a repo, and the README is in HTML. Yes, you could do this with your web browser. Fenestro keeps it from opening as yet another tab in one of your 20 windows spread across 4 desktops with 30 tabs each. ;)
fenestro --path path/to/README.html
Better tool output
The deeper you go down the rabbit hole of command line awesomeness, the more powerful your tools become. The more powerful your tools become the more poorly suited the terminal is to outputting the details. Now your command line tools can create visually complex, and useful output with crazy things like… *gasp* images.
Compilation & Installation instructions are at the bottom of this document.
Usage
Command line options
Path To A File
-p file_path
--path=file_path
Load HTML to be rendered from the specified file
Display name for the html file
-n name
--name=name
The name that should be displayed in the sidebar. For example
fenestro -p path/to/foo.html -n "foo.rb"
would display foo.rb in the sidebar.
Version
-v
--version
Load an HTML page that displays the current version of the app.
Compilation & Installation
Presuming you’ve obtained the source code from GitHub…
$ git submodule update --init
$ make
$ mv build/Release/Fenestro.app /Applications/
Then double-click Fenestro.app. It will present you with a dialog, asking
where you’d like to install the command line tool.