The menus on a Monotone Browser window largely provide an alternative means of accessing the functions provided by the tool-bar buttons. For example the menu option does exactly the same thing as the Open tool-bar button. As the tool-bar buttons are discussed in the next section, I will not bother to elaborate on their menu counterparts here. However there are a few extra menu options that do not appear anywhere else:
Monotone Browser window but in its closed state rather than initially duplicating the contents of the existing window. This is particularly useful if the first thing you are going to do is to open a completely different database.
- Displays a new- Presents the user with a menu from which they can select a database to open. Up to ten of the most recently accessed Monotone databases are stored in this menu.
Monotone Browser windows have been closed.
- This completely quits out of the application regardless of what windows you may have open. Normally the application only exits when all of its- Saves the dimensions of not only current but also previously displayed windows (including some dialog windows). Newly displayed windows will be sized according to those saved dimensions.
- Removes all information regarding saved window dimensions, causing newly displayed windows to revert to their original sizes.
Monotone Browser. The most popular encodings are listed first but there is also the submenu containing all of the encodings known to your system. The default character encoding used by Monotone Browser is UTF-8.
- Allows the user to select the character encoding for the files that they are going to display in- Allows the user to select the local authentication key that is to be used when connecting to remote Monotone servers. This menu is only useful if you happen to have more than one local authentication key, which is not usually the case. The menu option can be used to reinstate the default behaviour where Monotone is not told which authentication key to use.
Compare Arbitrary Revisions window that allows the user to compare any two revisions in the database (see Section 5.3).
- Displays aSection 5.2). This menu option is only available if Monotone Browser was started within a workspace.
- Performs a revision comparison between the current contents of the workspace and the revision upon which it is based (seeMonotone Browser manual for the current window.
- Displays the relevant section in theMonotone Browser manual for that widget or group of widgets.
- This puts the application into a context sensitive help mode where one can select a specific widget on a window and display the relevant section in theMonotone Browser application.
- Displays the home page for theAbout window that nurses the ego of the author and rightly mentions those people kind enough to contribute their time and effort to this project.
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