NAME
peless - tabbed X window text file viewer.
SYNOPSIS
peless file ...
DESCRIPTION
peless displays multipile text files under GTK and X11.
MENUS
FILE MENUS
Open Open a new file in a net tab.
You can open one or more files from the resulting file selection
dialog.
Close Close the current tab and its file.
Quit close all files and and exit peless.
EDIT MENUS
Font Choose a new font with which to display all files.
When peless exits the last font used becomes the default font
for future invocations of peless.
Find Find a text string or regular expression in the displayed text
file. This dialog can control multiple features for the search.
Regular expression type can be one of the following:
literal, normal, basic, or extended.
literal searches for a literal text string not a
regular expression: This is not regular expression
searching at all, but simply search for a literal text
string. (Searching for dummies.) All characters in the
string are treated as literals, there are no special
characters or escape sequences.
Normal regular expressions: Specifies that the grammar
recognized by the regular expression engine uses its
normal semantics: that is the same as that given in the
ECMA-262, ECMAScript Language Specification, Chapter 15
part 10, RegExp (Regular Expression) Objects (FWD.1).
said to be the same as the way perl searches.
Basic specifies that the grammar recognized by the
regular expression engine is the same as that used by
POSIX basic regular expressions in IEEE Std
1003.1-2001, Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX
), Base Definitions and Headers, Section 9, Regular
Expressions (FWD.1). said to be the way sed searches.
Extended Specifies that the grammar recognized by the
regular expression engine is the same as that used by
POSIX extended regular expressions in IEEE Std
1003.1-2001, Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX
), Base Definitions and Headers, Section 9, Regular
Expressions (FWD.1). Said to be the way egrep
searches.
When the require exact case match checkbox is checked,
the searched for string must match the case of the target
exactly or no match will be found. When unchecked, the
case of the searched for string does not matter.
When the reverse search direction checkbox is checked,
the search will procede in the reverse direction, that is
from the current position toward the beginning of the
file.
Find next
Find the same text string or the same regular expression again
in the same displayed text file.
REQUIREMENTS
Requires the boost library, gtkmm2, gconfmm2.
DIAGNOSTICS
The following error messages may be displayed by error dialogs:
basic_filebuf::underflow error reading the file
Invalid byte sequence in conversion input
basic_filebuf::underflow error reading the file
Error compiling regular exception:
Regular expresion search failed, continue search from beginning of
buffer.
Regular expresion search failed, continue search from end of buffer.
Regular expression search failure.
BUGS
The regular expresion searching is done only with the "classic" locale,
not necessarily the locale that the user is using.
AUTHOR
Paul Elliott <pelliott at io dot com>