Nick <suckless-...@njw.me.uk> writes:
> Thanks for taking a look Christian.
>
> On Tue, Jun 04, 2013 at 12:38:22PM +0200, Christian Neukirchen wrote:
>> > I was fed up reading in mupdf (too paginated and annoying to get
>> > text into), a terminal (too monospaced), or surf (too massive), so
>> > thought I should make something better. So I spent an afternoon
>> > making a pager that you pipe text into, with tcl/tk, and I think
>> > it's quite good (with tk 8.5 - everything is ugly with 8.5). It's
>> > attached.
>>
>> Looks pretty good already.
>>
>> Some ideas:
>> - a tail -f like mode
>
> That's a nice idea. I'll see how simple it is to implement.
>
>> - quick selection of a few fonts (or toggle monospace<->variable width)
>
> I figure if you want monospace fonts you're probably better off with
> less in the terminal. This is focused on reading essays and the
> like.
>
>> - a small scrollbar to indicate position
>
> The window title indicates position (percent through the text),
> which I prefer to a scrollbar, and it's less code.
>
>> - make text width adjustable at runtime
>
> It will shrink according to the window size, it will just never
> increase above the max width (which is roughly 60 characters). Which
> I like for text.
I was just reading a man page, and 60 chars was a big too short for
lines with many uppercase chars (not sure how it calculates the width
exactly).
And I don't have window decorations, that why I didn't see the
position.
Scrollbars are simple with Tk, however:
--- tkread.tcl.1 2013-06-04 13:51:20.713947556 +0200
+++ tkread.tcl 2013-06-04 13:54:55.408723535 +0200
@@ -52,7 +52,9 @@
}
. configure -bg white
-text .t -font "Times $fontsize" -wrap word -width 60 -padx [expr $fontsize *
2] -bd -1 -bg white -fg $colour
+text .t -font "Times $fontsize" -wrap word -width 60 -padx [expr $fontsize *
2] -bd -1 -bg white -fg $colour -yscrollcommand { .s set }
+scrollbar .s -width 5 -command { .t yview }
+pack .s -fill y -side left
pack .t -expand yes -fill y
set text [read stdin]
if { $::argc > 0 && [lindex $::argv 0] == "-w" } {
--
Christian Neukirchen <chneukirc...@gmail.com> http://chneukirchen.org
