6.4.8 The Tools menu

The ”Tools” menu defines some standard tools. If new tools are defined by the user, they are appended to this menu as well.

Messages

(F11) Shows the messages window. This window contains the output from one of the tools. For more information, see section 6.10.1, page 284.

Goto next

(Alt-F8) Goes to the next message.

Goto previous

(Alt-F7) Goes to the previous message

Grep

(SHIFT-F2) Prompts for a regular expression and options to be given to grep, and then executes grep with the given expression and options. For this to work, the grep program must be installed on the system, and be in a directory that is in the PATH. For more information, see section 6.10.2, page 287.

Calculator

Displays the calculator. For more information, see section 6.10.4, page 292.

Ascii table

Displays the ASCII table. For more information, see section 6.10.3, page 288.