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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.

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 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).