Xless(1x)
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, containing 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 input. 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 environment 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 online 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 understands 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 num
- ber 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 specified 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 default helpfile.
- editor Name of editor to invoke (if neither VISUAL nor EDITOR envi
- ronment variable is set)
- 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 default 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 continually 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 colorrelated 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) <dglo@CS.Berkeley.EDU>
- Originally by Carlo Lisa (MIT Project Athena) from xmore written by
Chris Peterson (MIT Project Athena).