Mothra Help

Mothra is a World-wide Web browser. Its display looks like this:

The display's regions, from top to bottom, are:

• A display of error messages and other information.
• A text input window in which commands can be typed.
• A scrollable list of titles of previously visited documents, with the most recent first. Selecting one of these lines with mouse button 1 revisits the document.
• The title of the currently-displayed document.
• The URL of the currently-displayed document.
• The scrollable document display. Underlined text and images surrounded by boxes may be selected by button 1 to visit the files that they refer to. Files that are not HTML documents (for example images or mailto: urls) cause 9v or mail to pop up in a new 8½ window.

Mouse Action

Button 3 pops up a command menu. Pointing with button 2 instead of button 1 selects a url without following it (for commands that refer to a url.) Currently, the button 3 menu just contains

• fix cmap
  reload the default plan 9 colormap
• exit

The commands you can type are:

• g url
  get the page with the given url
• s file
  save the current page in the given file
• q
  exit
• ?
  get help
• h
  get help

Mothra creates 2 files in $home/lib/mothra.

• mothra.log
  a list of all the url's visited
• mothra.err
  a log of error messages, mostly uninteresting