## Gless Manual

2000
John Fleck

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This is version 1.1 of Gless manual.

## Introduction

Gless is a program for viewing text files, similar to the GNU program less. It is included in the package `GNOME-Utils`, which is a part of the GNOME desktop environment. This document describes version &version; of Gless.

Gless can be started by selecting Text File Viewer from Utilities submenu of the Main Menu, or by running the command `gless` on the command line.

## Using Gless

Gless can be used to view, but not edit, text files. This section describes basic usage of Gless.

### Basic usage

When you first start Gless, you see the Main window, as shown in .

#### Gless Main Window

Gless Main Window

### Menus

The menu bar, located at the top of the Main Window, provides the following commands:

File

  This menu contains commands Alt-N New Window ,

  Alt-O, F3 Open ,

  Ctrl-A Save As , Alt-W Close and Alt-Q Quit all of which are self-explanatory.

Edit

  This menu contains Alt-F, F6 Find , which opens up a dialog box allowing you to enter a word to be searched for, and Alt-A, Shift-F6 Find Again , which searches for the next occurrence of the same word.

Settings

  This menu contains only one command, Ctl-F Fixed Font , which toggles between a fixed font display and a proportional font display.

Help

  This menu contains commands

  - Manual — shows this manual

  - About — shows basic information about Gless, such as author's name and version number.

## Authors

Gless was written by Havoc Pennington (hp@redhat.com). Please send all comments, suggestions, and bug reports to the GNOME bug tracking database. Instructions for submitting bug reports can be found on-line at http://bugs.gnome.org/Reporting.html. If you are using GNOME 1.1 or later, you can also use command `bug-buddy` for submitting bug reports.

This manual was written by John Fleck (jfleck@inkstain.net). Please send all comments and suggestions regarding the manual to the GNOME Documentation Project at docs@gnome.org. You can also add your comments online by using GNOME Documentation Status Table.

This program was written by Havoc Pennington and can be freely redistributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.