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To: linuxmovies@yahoogroups.com,
From: Drew Perttula <drewp@bigasterisk.com>
Subject: [open-source-programmer] new program 'skim'
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 11:39:00 -0700
I just wrote up docs and webpage for one of my hacks. It's at
http://bigasterisk.com/skim.
"skim is an alternative text file viewer with a graphical interface and
advanced searching and browsing features. It requires Python 2.2 or later
with Tkinter, and it can make use of Wordnet with pywn.
The important features of skim are:
* the birdseye view, where you can see a representation of your whole
file (or a zoomed piece) at the same time that you browse the text
* the advanced search features where you can, for example, highlight
several words at once (like Google's cache) and even highlight
related words (synonyms, misspellings)
* the combination of the above two features; which means that you
can see all the matches in your whole document at once. Now you
can browse right to the clusters of matches. Compare this to your
other programs, where you have to hit 'next' a bunch of times and
wade through all the out-of-context matches. In skim, you can see
instantly where the search matches occur together, which is probably
the part you wanted to read.
"
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