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.
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 right in the document by a random amount (if a horizontal 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.
