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TkInfo 2.5 installed in outland locker.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Laas)
Mon Jun 21 21:40:09 1999
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 21:39:37 -0400 (EDT)
From: Chris Laas <golem@MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: golem@MIT.EDU
To: software-announce@MIT.EDU
TkInfo, a graphical browser for info files, is available in the outland
locker for all platforms. To run:
add outland
tkinfo &
According to http://math-www.uni-paderborn.de/~axel/tkinfo/, the main
features of TkInfo are:
* Intuitive point-and-click interface.
* Supports index lookups (for info files which contain an index).
* File-wide search (exact or regular expression).
* Multiple windows.
* "Redirect window feature" (bound to right mouse button) allows easy
exploring of large menus.
* Repeatedly hitting Space will scroll through the whole info file in logical
order.
* Can be operated with little mouse movement: important commands bound to
right button, scrolling with middle button, selecting with left button.
* Quick mouse-less operation: Tab jumps from link to link, Return selects,
key bindings almost identical to the ones of the standard info program
and emacs' info mode.
* History list of visited info nodes.
* Can be embedded into other Tcl/Tk programs to provide on-line help.
Bug reports should go to bug-outland@mit.edu.
--Chris
--
Late at night, with TV's hungry child, his belly swells \
When, for the price of a Coke, or a smoke \
I could keep alive those hungry eyes. \
-- Dave Matthews Band, "Seek Up"
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Chris Laas: KB1DEM \ golem@mit.edu (617)225-6522 \ EC, Hayden 507, MIT
