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authorstanley lieber <stanley.lieber@gmail.com>2011-10-01 21:30:12 -0500
committerstanley lieber <stanley.lieber@gmail.com>2011-10-01 21:30:12 -0500
commit2036c493940eea8cd9d67fe792713d38b81547af (patch)
treee0543f6be7a813523c1c42beba647341096f41c3 /sys/man/1/mothra
parent931dd8bbe81f10047a85ef73298f0548490753fd (diff)
mothra: add moth mode; display images that are not also links as a link to themselves
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@@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ mothra \- retrieve and display World-Wide Web files
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B mothra
[
+.B -dv
+]
+[
.B -m
.I mtpt
] [
@@ -11,7 +14,9 @@ mothra \- retrieve and display World-Wide Web files
]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.I Mothra
-retrieves and displays files from the World-Wide Web,
+uses
+.IR webfs (4)
+to retrieve and display files from the World-Wide Web,
by name or through hypertext links.
Web names, called URLs, have a peculiar syntax:
.IP
@@ -55,18 +60,19 @@ There are a number of options:
.B -d
Debug mode.
.TP
+.B -m
+Specify the
+.IR webfs (4)
+mountpoint with
+.BR -m
+.I mtpt.
+The default is
+.B /mnt/web.
+.TP
.B -v
Verbose mode. Causes HTML errors to appear in
.B $home/lib/mothra/mothra.err
.PP
-Mothra uses
-.IR webfs (4)
-to retrive the URL data. The mountpoint, default is
-.B /mnt/web,
-can be changed with the
-.BR -b
-.I mtpt .
-.PP
The display contains the last message from
.I mothra,
a box where typed commands appear,
@@ -85,16 +91,17 @@ Button 3 pops up a menu of commands:
.B alt display
Collapse or expand the navigation boxes at the top of the browser window.
.TP
+.B moth mode
+Enter moth mode and switch to the moth cursor. Clicking an image or link
+with mouse button 1 saves a copy of the file in the current directory.
+Clicking any other mouse button exits moth mode.
+.TP
.B snarf url
Copy the current URL to the snarf buffer.
.TP
.B paste
Paste the current snarf buffer at the current cursor position.
.TP
-.B save url
-Save the currently selected URL as a file. Directory indexes are saved in a file named
-.I index.
-.TP
.B save hit
Save the current URL to the hit list.
.TP
@@ -164,7 +171,12 @@ log of error messages, including HTML syntax errors
Files are saved in the form received,
not in the form suggested by the name in an
.B s
-command.
-.br
+command. A directory index saved from moth mode may be written in
+the local directory as a file named
+.B index.
+Sanitizing remote file names for the local file system is imperfect.
+.PP
.I Mothra
-is distributed in a preliminary state; it has more than its share of bugs.
+is distributed in a preliminary state; it has more than its share of bugs. Note that
+.I mothra,
+like the other Guardian Monsters, has no particular concern for humanity.