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LUGINS
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Chop
breaks lines at the maximum column limit.
Line mode
cycles through Normal, Join and Expand.
Normal
breaks lines at newline characters.
Join
ignores unpaired newline characters (i.e., joins lines). Useful for adopting
the orphans that occur with e-mail style (i.e.,pre-wrapped) text files.
Expand
doubles unpaired newlines (i.e., adds a blank line). Useful for making
the paragraphs clearer in some book style text files.
View mode
toggles between Narrow and Wide.
Narrow
sets maximum column to the screen width.
Wide
sets maximum column to 114. Useful for navigating large files. (Currently,
Wide and Join cannot be selected together.)
Settings are not remembered after the viewer has been exited.
Key
Action
Minus
Page-up (one screen up)
Plus
Page-down (one screen down)
Menu+Minus
Top of file (Narrow mode) One screen left
(Wide mode)
Menu+Plus
Bottom of file (Narrow mode) One screen
right (Wide mode)
On+Minus
Toggles Word mode
On+Menu+Plus
Cycles line mode
On+Plus
Toggles view mode
Stop
Exit text viewer
Compatibility
•
Correctly reads plain text files in Unix, Win/DOS, or Macintosh format. Latin-
alphabet Unicode files are
almost
readable.
•
Currently prefers fixed-width fonts. With proportional fonts, pretends all charac-
ters are the width of a lower-case ‘o’.
•
Currently messages are in English
•
Does not currently support right-to-left languages.
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