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xless - File browsing program for the X Window System.

xless [-f] [-toolkitoption ...] [filename ...]

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:

- Open a session of the editor (specified in the environment variable EDITOR) on the current file

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.

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:

Continually check the file for new input (so that xless behaves like tail -f).
Alias for -f.
Print a list of valid options. -version Print the version number of this xless executable.

In addition to the usual widget resources, Xless has the following application resources:

The default font to be used if any of the specified fonts are available.
The fonts to use for the text.
The fonts to use for labels in dialog boxes.
The fonts to use for labels on buttons.
The cursors to use in the main button window with the Quit and Help commands.
The cursors to use in the toolbox and dialog box windows.
Name of a file to use instead of the system default helpfile.
Name of editor to invoke (if neither VISUAL nor EDITOR environment variable is set)
Set to TRUE if your editor brings up its own window (xedit or GNU emacs, for example.)
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.)
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.)
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.
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'.
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.
Default method used to search the text (invoked from the Search button). Possible values are ExactMatch (which is the default), CaseInsensitive and RegularExpression.
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.

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.

X(1), X(8C), more(1), less(1)

There probably are some.

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).

6 June 1993 X Version 11