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 Figure 1.

Figure 1. Gless Main Window

Menus

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

File

This menu contains commands New Window (Alt-N), Open (Alt-O, F3), Save As (Ctrl-A), Close (Alt-W) and Quit (Alt-Q) all of which are self-explanatory.

Edit

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

Settings

This menu contains only one command, Fixed Font (Ctl-F), 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.