https://github.com/kutsan/reopen-cli
Improvement over `open` utility for macOS and Chrome; open URLs in the browser but instead of creating new tabs every time, use existing ones by mutating them.
https://github.com/kutsan/reopen-cli
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Improvement over `open` utility for macOS and Chrome; open URLs in the browser but instead of creating new tabs every time, use existing ones by mutating them.
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/kutsan/reopen-cli
- Owner: kutsan
- License: gpl-3.0
- Created: 2018-02-25T18:10:01.000Z (about 8 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2023-06-19T01:51:07.000Z (over 2 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-08-20T17:23:42.515Z (7 months ago)
- Topics: google-chrome, macos, open, osascript
- Language: JavaScript
- Homepage:
- Size: 44.9 KB
- Stars: 4
- Watchers: 2
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 2
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE
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README
# reopen-cli
[](https://www.npmjs.com/package/reopen-cli)
| | Comparison with macOS's `open` |
|--------|--------------------------------------|
| open |  |
| reopen |  |
## Requirements
- `osascript` which is pre-installed macOS utility
- Google Chrome
## Features
- Should open Google Chrome if it's not already open.
- Should open a new window, if there is no window but Google Chrome is open.
- If there is only one window, one tab and it's new empty tab, it should use that tab.
- Should focus Google Chrome after opening the URL.
- Should focus first tab, if there is one or multiple.
- Should create a new tab, if there is none.
- Should preserve history.
## Installation
```sh
npm install --global reopen-cli
```
## Usage
### Synopsis
```sh
reopen ''
```
### Example
```sh
reopen 'https://devdocs.io/#q=html'
reopen 'https://devdocs.io/#q=react'
```
### Using with vim
Although you can use with any URL, one particular example would be opening
[devdocs.io](https://devdocs.io) upon pressing `'keywordprg'` mapping which is `K` by default.
Create a command.
```vim
command! -nargs=* Docs call system(printf('reopen "https://devdocs.io/?q=%s"', ))
```
Set `'keywordprg'` to that command.
```vim
set keywordprg=:Docs
```
Now, pressing `K` under any keyword (or e.g. `:Docs child_process`) will bring
DevDocs docs and repeating that would replace current open tab.
## License
GPL-3.0