BRUTUS(1)BRUTUS(1)NAMEbrutus - 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. But‐
ton 1 can be used to make a window current. Within the current window,
button 1 selects text. Double clicking selects text up to the bound‐
aries 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 han‐
dling 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 but‐
ton-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 appropriate 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 character sequence
word. If text has been selected in the current window the search
begins from the end of the selection if searching forwards and the
beginning of the selection 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 displayed
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 nor‐
mal, 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 dis‐
played text.
PLUMBING
wm/brutus listens for edit messages and plumbs text selected by button
3
SOURCE
/appl/wm/brutus.b
SEE ALSOacme(1), cook(1)BRUTUS(1)
