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NAME
brutus - screen editor with support for SGML
SYNOPSIS
wm/brutus [ file ]
DESCRIPTION
Brutus is a multi-file editor for UTF format text files.
When editing multiple files, each file appears in its own
window. Button 1 can be used to make a window current.
Within the current window, button 1 selects text. Double
clicking selects text up to the boundaries of words, lines,
quoted text or bracketed text depending upon the text at the
point of the double click. Double clicking at the start of a
line selects the entire line. Double clicking just inside
various forms of brace selects text up to the matching
brace, correctly handling nested braces. Button 2 displays
a menu of editing commands:
cut Delete the selected text and save it in the snarf
buffer.
paste Replace the selected text by the contents of the
snarf buffer.
snarf Save the selected text in the snarf buffer.
look Search forwards and select the next occurrence of the
selected text.
Mouse chording is implemented, as in acme(1). Dragging a
selection with button-1 held down and then also clicking
button-2 cuts the selected text into the Snarf buffer.
Clicking button-3 instead of button-2 replaces the selected
text with the contents of the Snarf buffer.
Clicking button 3 extracts the whitespace-bounded string
around the point of the click and plumbs it to the appropri-
ate application (see plumber(8)).
A brutus console window is always displayed from which new
files may be opened or from which existing open files may be
selected. Typing
/word
in the console window will search for the character sequence
word in the file associated with the current window. Typing
?word
in the console window will search backwards for the
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character sequence word. If text has been selected in the
current window the search begins from the end of the selec-
tion if searching forwards and the beginning of the selec-
tion if searching backwards. If no text has been selected
the search begins from the current insertion point. Typing
linenumber
in the console window selects all the text on line
linenumber and moves the window to show the selected text.
SGML
If the first line of a file is exactly:
<SGML>
it is assumed to be in SGML format and the contents are dis-
played according to some predefined formatting rules. Tags
of the form <font.size> are recognised and used to control
the visual appearance of text. The font may be one of:
Roman, Italic, Bold, and Type giving normal, italicised,
emboldened, and constant width text. The size may be one of
6, 8, 10, 12, or 16, and determines the point size of the
displayed text.
PLUMBING
wm/brutus listens for edit messages and plumbs text selected
by button 3
SOURCE
/appl/wm/brutus.b
SEE ALSO
acme(1), cook(1)
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