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Archive-name: auto/comp.lang.tcl/directory-browser-editor-and-help-system

A new configurable directory browser, text editor, and help viewing
system are available for anonymous FTP.  Currently, they are available
as /pub/js/jstools-beta.tar.Z on princeton.edu; I've also submitted
the file to the archive on barkley.berkeley.edu.  There's also a
README file, README.jstools.

The browser is vaguely similar in appearance to the NeXT browser and
to the file browser on the Point text editor.  It defines a number of
kinds of actions you can perform on files, such as view, edit, print,
and process, and associates different Unix commands with actions on
different kinds of files.  You can customise what tools it uses on
what kinds of files.

The editor is just a simple text editor with a few more features
than xedit.  It comes with a sample set of Emacs-like keyboard
bindings.

I'm calling this a beta release because the tools aren't very
robust yet, but I think they're still useful.  I welcome comments
and suggestions.

From the man pages:
     The  browser.tk  application  is  a  configurable  directory
     browser.  It lets you navigate through directories and mani-
     pulate files in various ways.  It has a mechanism  for  dis-
     tinguishing  different  kinds of files based on their names,
     so that for instance it will use different  underlying  Unix
     commands to print a DVI file and a plain text file.

     The edit.tk application is a simple, customisable X  Windows
     text  editor.   It  should start quickly enough that you can
     use it comfortably for short  email  notes  and  such  light
     editing  tasks,  but you can also adapt it to more elaborate
     applications such as editing source code.

     help.tk is intended to be invoked automatically by  Tk-based
     applications,  but  you can also invoke it yourself from the
     command line by typing `help.tk topic', where topic  is  the
     name of a help.tk help file.  If the requested file can't be
     found, an alert box will tell you so.
     The help.tk application was developed as a tool for display-
     ing  online  manuals for Tk-based applications.  (Of course,
     there's no reason it can't be used for other kinds of  files
     as  well.) The help files it displays consist of one or more
     sections, and you can view the sections in any order.

---j.
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Jay Sekora                           | internet:     js@princeton.edu
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