The original reason for writing was as a simple text viewer to work with which could start viewing a file at an arbitrary line number or character position. It turns out, a text viewer is a complicated thing, so it grew to be a lot bigger than itself! Oh Well...
The usage is straight forward. View a file and hit <help> to
get a help screen on the commands.
The only thing that needs a little clarification is the search
algorithm. If the search pattern you enter has no unescaped
wildcard characters, then a '#?' will be prepended and appended to
the pattern. If it has any unescaped wildcard characters, then
the pattern will have to match an entire line. See
for a discussion of the legal wildcard syntax.
Jon Spencer
EMail: bhgs@@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca