Wackford(1) BSD General Commands Manual Wackford(1)NAME
Wackford — SHYTE Browser
SYNOPSISwackford ⟨filename⟩ ...
DESCRIPTION
Wackford is the SHYTE client browser for 8-bit documents. SHYTE is Sim‐
ple HYperTExt. See the shyte(5) manual for details on document struc‐
ture. SHYTE documents are served over the network by the Squeers(8) file
server.
Wackford behaves similarly to vi(1) when that program is invoked as
"view". The following additional behaviors turn Wackford into a SHYTE
browser:
· Any filename specified on the command-line or to the :e command,
which is delimited with angle-brackets, is interpreted as a SHYTE
Locator.
· The < and > keys find the SHYTE Locator occurring before the cursor
position, and after the cursor position, respectively.
· The [enter] key loads the SHYTE document specified by the Locator
which begins at the cursor position, unless the Locator is a Binary
Locator, in which case it attempts to download the resource specified
by the path portion of the Locator to the current directory.
· The [space] key causes wackford to abandon the current document and
reload the document that was loaded previously.
· Control-T causes Wackford to display current document's meta-data.
If the meta-data is already being displayed, it causes Wackford to
display the current document again.
· Control-K adds the current document to the user's bookmarks file.
· Control-V Loads the user's bookmarks file into the buffer.
· Control-R Reloads the current document from its source. Wackford
caches all documents viewed in memory. Revisiting an already-visited
document causes Wackford to reload the document from its cache. If
you believe a document may have changed since the last time it was
visited, it may be reloaded from its appropriate source with this
command. The cache is discarded when wackford exits.
Almost all of the vi cursor-motion and buffer-scrolling commands are
implemented, as well as bookmark operations and regular-expression
searches. For convenience in disambiguating them, space and tab charac‐
ters may be also be specified in regular expressions with the \b and \t
escape sequences, respectively.
Eight ex commands are recognized. Local filename completion may be
requested on the ex command line by pressing the tab key. There are sep‐
arate editable histories for ex commands and for regular-expression
searches, which may be browsed with Ctrl-n and Ctrl-p.
:e will attempt to load its argument into the buffer, either a plain
text file or a SHYTE document, from either the local filesystem or
from a SHYTE server. Local filenames starting with whitespace must
have a path prepended to them, in order for the filename to be under‐
stood by the "e" command. If the argument is delimited with angle
brackets, the browser will consider it a SHYTE Locator, and attempt
to load the document from the appropriate server.
:n will load the next file specified on the command line.
:p will load the previous file specified on the command line
:r will rewind the argument pointer and reload the first file specified
on the command line.
:! will attempt to pass its argument to /bin/sh for execution.
:$ will cause the browser to suspend itself and drop back to the shell.
The shell's "fg" command will return the user to the browser.
:b causes the browser to launch the editor specified by the EDITOR envi‐
ronment variable, with the user's bookmarks file.
:q will cause the browser to exit.
Unlike vi, newlines are displayed as spaces at the ends of lines on
screen. Lines longer than the terminal width are truncated. Attempting
to move the cursor past the right edge of the screen will scroll the buf‐
fer horizontally. Wackford will resize itself upon receipt of SIGWINCH.
AUTHORS
James Bailie ⟨jimmy@mammothcheese.ca⟩
http://www.mammothcheese.ca
Oct 05, 2013
