NAME¶

Tk::More - a 'more' or 'less' like text widget

SYNOPSIS¶

    use Tk::More;
    $more = $parent->More(...text widget options ...);
    $more->Load(FILENAME);

DESCRIPTION¶

Tk::More is a readonly text widget with additional key bindings as found in UNI* command line tools "more" or "less". As in "more" an additional status/command line is added at the bottom.

ADDITIONAL BINDINGS¶

Key-g or Home

goto beginning of file

Key-G or End

goto end of file

Key-f or Next

forward screen

Key-b or Prior

backward screen

Key-k or Up

up one line

Key-j or Down

down one line

Key-/

search forward

Key-?

search backward

Key-n

find next match

Key-N

find previous match

Key-u

up half screen

Key-d

down half screen

Key-Return

down one line

Key-h

invoke help window

OPTIONS¶

Name: fixedFont

Class: FixedFont

Switch: -font

Set the font of the viewer widget. This is by default a fixed font.

Name: searchCase

Class: SearchCase

Switch: -searchcase

Set if searching should be done case-insensitive. Defaults to true.

Switch: -helpcommand

Sets the command for the "h" (help) key.

METHODS¶

Load($file, %args)

Load $file into the widget. %args may be one of the following

AddQuitBindings

Convenience method to add the bindinds Key-q and Control-Key-q to close the Toplevel window containing this More widget.

BUGS¶

Besides that most of more bindings are not implemented. This bugs me most (high to low priority):

* better status line implementation

* Cursor movement: up/down move displayed area regardless where
insert cursor is

* add History, Load, Search (also as popup menu)

SEE ALSO¶

Tk::ROText, more(1), tkmore, less(1)

AUTHOR¶

Achim Bohnet <ach@mpe.mpg.de>

Currently maintained by Slaven Rezic <slaven@rezic.de>.

Copyright (c) 1997-1998 Achim Bohnet. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.