Xless(1) X Version 11 (6 June 1993) 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, 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 number of this xless executable.
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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 environment 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
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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 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
X(1), X(8C), more(1), less(1)
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).
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