<html><head><title>Mothra help</title> </head> <body> <H1>Mothra Help</H1> <p> Mothra is a World-wide Web browser. Its display looks like this: <p><img src="file:display.pic" alt="[mothra display]"> <p>The display's regions, from top to bottom, are: <ul> <li>Error messages and other information. <li>The name of the currently selected url. This may be different from the displayed url. <li>A text input window in which <a href="#commands">commands</a> can be typed. <li>A scrollable list of titles of previously visited documents, with the most recent first. Pointing at one of these lines with mouse button 1 revisits the document. <li>The title of the currently-displayed document. <li>The URL of the currently-displayed document. <li>The scrollable document display. Underlined text and images surrounded by boxes may be pointed at with button 1 to visit the files that they refer to. Files that are not HTML documents (for example images or mailto: urls) cause <i>9v</i> or <i>mail</i> to pop up in a new 8½ window. </ul> <h4>Mouse Action</H4> <p>Pointing with button 2 instead of button 1 selects a url without following it; the url will be displayed in the selection: area and commands will refer to the url, but it will not be drawn in the document display. Button 3 pops up a command menu that contains <ul> <li><b>alt display</b><br>switches to (or from) the alternate display, which shows only the scrollable document display area. This might be useful when running mothra in a small window. <li><b>snarf url</b><br>copies the selected url into the snarf buffer. <li><b>paste</b><br>appends the snarf buffer to the command window. <li><b>inline pix</b><br>turn off/on loading of inline images. Image maps cannot be disabled. <li><b>fix cmap</b><br>reload the default plan 9 colormap <li><b>save hit</b><br>appends the selected url to file:$home/lib/hit.html <li><b>hit list</b><br>displays file:$home/lib/hit.html <li><b>exit</b> </ul> <a name="#commands"><h4>Commands</h4></a> <p>The commands you can type are: <ul> <li>g [url]<br>get the page with the given url (default, the selection.) <li>r [url]<br>refresh the display if the URL changes. Otherwise, you will probably see a cached version. <li>s file<br>save the current page in the given file. <li>w file<br>write a bitmap image of the document display area in the given file. <li>q<br>exit. <li>?<br>get help. <li>h<br>get help. </ul> <p> <h4>Configuration</h4> Mothra gets configuration information from the environment. <ul> <li>$url<br>The default <i>url</i> displayed when mothra starts. A <i>url</i> given on the command line overrides this. The default is <b>/sys/lib/mothra/start.html</b> <li>$httpproxy<br>The network address of an http proxy server, in the format expected by dial(2). If $httpproxy is not set or is null, no proxy server is used. </ul> <h4>Command line</h4> If the mothra command has an argument, it is the name of a <i>url</i> to visit instead of the startup page. Giving mothra the <b>-i</b> flag disables loading of inline images. The <b>inline pix</b> menu item will reset this option. <h4>Files</h4> Mothra creates several files in $home/lib/mothra. <ul> <li>mothra.log<br>a list of all the url's visited <li>mothra.err<br>a log of error messages, mostly uninteresting <li>hit.html<br>the hit list used by the <b>save hit</b> and <b>hit list</b> commands. Since <b>save hit</b> only adds new urls to the end of this file, it is safe to edit it to add annotation or sort the saved urls. </ul> </body> </html>