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Edit

Web Browser

If you click on [E], you can edit the HTML file that you have opened or created.

• Change the font size, given as a number, and grow or shrink the text area by changing its height and width, given as lines and characters per line. Click on [Accept] to redraw the page. The text area right should fit into the frame, without overlapping scroll bars. The font size change applies to the view, analyse and typeset functions as well. You can select a smaller font in a split frame.
• Delete a few characters within the text area and click on [Reset]. Your browser will undo this change immediately and restore the original state, but it cannot remember multiple steps of editing.
• Add a few letters to the text and click on [Accept]. The file will now be uploaded to the web server again, and your browser has to redraw the frame content. If the file change that you just have made is lost now, then the browser has loaded an old copy of the file from its hard disk cache instead of an updated version delivered by the server. You should change the browser settings then.

You can save the file by clicking with the right mouse button on the file name which is displayed on top of the frame content. Select Save target as or Open in a new window, where you can choose File/Save in the main menu.

Your browser’s word search function works in the text area like on any other web page, but line numbers are missing, and there is no syntax highlighting. So you will prefer to use an external editor.

If you click into the text area with the left mouse button and then open the context menu with the right one, you can select Mark all and Copy. Then open another editor like Note­pad, Front­Page or HTML-Kit (Windows) respectively Kwrite, Nedit or (X)Emacs (Linux), where you can paste the content from the clipboard. Similarly, you can re-transmit any modified text into the GMS text area in the browser after you have deleted its old content by pressing [Ctrl+A] to mark all and then [del].

Text Mode

If you press [E], an external program to edit the source file is executed. By default, it is edit.com (Dos) or notepad.exe (Windows). On Linux, it is vi, if none of the following is found in the /usr/bin directory: gedit, kedit, emacs, xemacs, quanta, kwrite, or nedit.

You can select another editor if you press [S] and [P]. The editor binary, or a link to it, should be found in the search path or in [GMS_BI­NA­RIES], a sub-directory of [GMS­_ROOT]/ht­docs/tex­mf/binbin.

Command Line

In the command line, say gms -e /my­fold­er/my­file.htm (Linux) or gms /e x:\my­fold­er\my­file.htm (Dos, Windows) to edit a markup document. If the file was opened or created before, it is sufficient to call gms -e or gms /e.

Alternatively, you can execute the command kedit /my­fold­er/my­file.htm (Linux), edit x:\my­fol­der\my­file.htm (Dos) or notepad x:\my­fold­er\my­file.htm (Windows).

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