Help On NCSA Mosaic Document Viewing Area
The NCSA Mosaic Document Viewing
Area provides you with a portal into many different types of online
information. NCSA Mosaic can currently display plaintext and formatted
(HTML)
hypertext, as well as inlined
images; more display capabilities are coming down the road.
Most of the details of document display are handled by an HTML Widget which is included as part of
the Mosaic source.
Text Selection
The Viewing Area allows you to select text as though you were in a
normal terminal or editor window; the text can then be pasted into
other X windows.
Press the left mouse button to begin selecting text; hold it
and drag, or alternately release it and then use the right
mouse button to complete the selection.
This section applies only to version 1.1.
While your mouse pointer is in a Viewing Area, a number of hotkeys
(keyboard shortcuts for common actions) are active:
- Page Up or Prior or Backspace or Delete
- Move backward in the document by one window's worth of text.
Note: If Page Up or Prior (or Page Down or Next) don't
do the right thing for you, then see
here.
- Page Down or Next or Return or Tab
or Space
- Move forward in the document by one window's worth of text.
- Up Arrow
- Move backward in the document by about one line.
- Down Arrow
- Move forward in the document by about one line.
- Left Arrow
- Move to the left in the document by a random amount
(if a horizontal scrollbar is present).
- Right Arrow
- Move to the left in the document by a random amount
(if a vertical scrollbar is present).
- a or A
- Pop up the Annotate dialog.
- b or B
- Move back one node in the window's history list.
- c or C
- Clone the current window.
- d or D
- Pop up the Document Source dialog.
- f or F
- Move forward one node in the window's history list.
- h or H
- Pop up the Window History dialog.
- l or L
- Pop up the Open Local dialog.
- m or M
- Pop up the Mail To dialog.
- n or N
- Open a new window.
- o or O
- Pop up the Open dialog.
- p or P
- Pop up the Print dialog.
- r or R
- Reload the document being viewed in this window.
- s or S
- Pop up the Document Search dialog.
- Escape
- Close the current window.
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