FBLESS

NAME

fbless - console fb2 reader

SYNOPSIS

fbless { book.fb2 | book.fb2.{zip | gz | bz2} }

DESCRIPTION

Fbless creates full-size ncurses window, with content of book displayed and only piece of user interface is statusbar at bottom. Interactrion with program is invisible, in vim style, using following default keys:

Up,k

scroll one line up

Down,j

scroll one line down

PgUp

scroll one page up

Space,PgDown

scroll one page down

Home,g

scroll to the beginning of file

	End		scroll to the end of file
	5,G		move to position in file (you will be interactively asked for percents value in range from 0 to 100, where 0 is the beginning of file and 100 is the end of file)
	Tab		move pointer on the next link

Enter,Right

follow link under pointer

Left, h

return back

Backspace, l

re-follow last link

	a		toggle auto-scroll mode
	f		enable fifo-style scrolling
	+,-		increase/decrease autoscroll interval (1sec granuality)
	/		search for regular expression
	n		go to the next search result
	s		toggle statusbar
	q		quit

fbless saves position in file on quit, and restores it next time you open same file, unless you move it in the meantime.

FILES

~/.fbless_save

file to store last viewed positions in books

~/.fblessrc, $XDG_BASE_DIR/fbless/fblessrc

configuration file, creating and editing it allows customize colors, keybindings and some other options. Default one in installed under /usr/share/doc/fbless

NOTES

This manual page was written by Dmitry Bogatov for Debian project, but can be used by others under terms of GPLv2+ license.

AUTHORS

Con Radchenko.