xless(1)
NAME
xless - File browsing program for the X Window System.
SYNOPSIS
xless [-f] [-toolkitoption ...] [filename ...]
DESCRIPTION
- Xless pops up a window on the display specified, contain
- ing the file specified on the command line or piped in from
- stdin. This file may easily be viewed using the scrollbar to the
- left of the window. Xless also takes input from the standard in
- put. Extra function are available on the toolbox to the right of
- the window:
- - Pop up a help window.
- - Search a specified pattern
- - Search the next occurance of the above specified pattern
- - Open a session of the editor (specified in the environ
- ment variable EDITOR) on the current file
- - Reload the current file
- - Change file in the current window
- - Open a new xless window to display the specified file
- - Print the current file
- - Close the current window
- For further information on using xless please read the on
- line help information. The rest of this manual page will discuss
- customization of xless to suit the needs of a particular user.
OPTIONS
- Xless is build upon the X Toolkit (Xt) and as such under
- stands all the normal command line options (as described in X(1).
- It also supports:
- -follow
- Continually check the file for new input (so that
- xless behaves like tail -f).
- -f Alias for -f.
- -help Print a list of valid options. -version Print the
- version number of this xless executable.
WIDGET AND RESOURCE NAMES
- In addition to the usual widget resources, Xless has the
- following application resources:
- standardFont
- The default font to be used if any of the speci
- fied fonts are available.
- textFont The fonts to use for the text.
- labelFont The fonts to use for labels in dialog boxes.
- buttonFont
- The fonts to use for labels on buttons.
- standardCur
- The cursors to use in the main button window
- with the Quit and Help commands.
- dialogCur The cursors to use in the toolbox and dialog box
- windows.
- helpFile Name of a file to use instead of the system de
- fault helpfile.
- editor Name of editor to invoke (if neither VISUAL nor
EDITOR
- editorDoesWindows
- Set to TRUE if your editor brings up its own
- window (xedit or GNU emacs, for example.)
- printCommand
- Command string used to print the current file.
- The name of the file is simply appended to this string.
- (enscript -G is nice, if you've got it.)
- maxWindows
- Maximum number of windows which xless will
- display at one time. Set this to zero if you don't want a limit.
- (This is a good thing to set if you tend to run xless * in
- directories with lots of files.)
- quitButton
- Set to TRUE if you want a Quit button on every
- window which, when clicked, will quit every window started from
- this copy of xless. The default is FALSE.
- sizeToFit Set to TRUE if you want text windows to be only
- as big as they need to be, up to the maximum size specified by
- 'geometry'.
- removePath
- Set to TRUE if you want the directory portion of
- the file path removed. For example, a path like
- /usr/src/X11/xless/main.c would be shortened to main.c. The de
- fault is TRUE.
- defaultSearchType
- Default method used to search the text (invoked
- from the Search button). Possible values are ExactMatch (which
- is the default), CaseInsensitive and RegularExpression.
- monitorFile
- Set to TRUE if you want the file to be continu
- ally checked for new input (so that xless behaves like tail -f).
- The default is FALSE.
COLOR RESOURCES
- If you have a color display and you're running at least
- X11R5, you may want to add a line like:
#ifdef COLOR
*customization: -color #endif- to your personal resources file. This will allow you to
- get the color-related resources for not only xless, but for every
- program which sets up its own color resources.
- Versions of X earlier than X11R5 don't support the
- customization resource. If you're on one of those, you'll have
- to include the color resources in your personal resources file.
SEE ALSO
BUGS
There probably are some.
AUTHOR
- Dave Glowacki (UC Berkeley Software Warehouse) <dg
- lo@CS.Berkeley.EDU>
- Originally by Carlo Lisa (MIT Project Athena) from xmore
- written by Chris Peterson (MIT Project Athena).
- X Version 11 6 June 1993