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PADS(9.5) PADS(9.5) NAME pads - user interface package DESCRIPTION Pads is a mouse-based interface for browsing a network of windows. Button 1 points. Pointing at a window makes it current, with a heavy border; pointing at a line of text makes it current, inverts its video, and scrolls it to the middle of the window. A scroll bar at the left of each window shows how much of the text of a window is visible; pointing into the scroll region controls what text is displayed. Button 2 has a menu of operations that apply to the current line. Op- erations above the ~~~~~ separator are specific to each line; opera- tions below the separator are generic line operations: cut Remove the line. sever Remove the line and all lines above it. fold If lines pass the right margin, continue them on following lines. truncate Truncate lines at the right margin. Button 3 has a menu of window-level operations, and is in three parts. Below the lower separator is a list of windows; selecting one makes it current. They appear in front-to-back screen order, current at the top. Operations above the upper separator are specific to each window; operations between the separators are generic window operations: reshape move close Like reshape, move, and delete in mux(9.1). fold truncate apply to all lines in the window. Keyboard characters accumulate at the bottom of the layer. If the cur- rent line accepts input, it flashes with each keystroke; otherwise, if the current window accepts input, its border flashes. Carriage return is ignored until a line or window accepts the text, whereupon the input line is sent to the line or window. The ESC key substitutes the mux(9.1) global snarf buffer. If the first character of a line from the keyboard is < or > the re- mainder of the line is interpreted as a shell command. For <, each line of the command's standard output is sent to the line or window, as though it had come from the keyboard. For >, the line or lines of the window become the command's standard input. Each line or window that accepts keyboard input produces some help in response to ?. Special cursor icons occasionally appear: arrow-dot-dot-dot The host is completing an operation; the terminal is ready asyn- chronously. exclamation mark Confirm a dangerous menu selection by pressing that menu's but- ton again. SEE ALSO T. A. Cargill, Pads Programming Guide PADS(9.5)