Bless 0.6.0 Manual
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Bless 0.6.0 Manual
Alexandros Frantzis
This manual describes version 0.6.0 of Bless.
Copyright © 2004, 2008 Alexandros Frantzis
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*Feedback*
To report a bug or make a suggestion regarding the Bless application or
this manual, please use the Bless bug page
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*Table of Contents*
1. Introduction
2. Building and Installing Bless
Bless 0.6.0 requirements
Installation guide
3. Getting Started
To Start Bless
When You Start Bless
4. Using Bless
Working with files
Creating a new file
Opening an existing file
Saving a file
Closing a file
Changing the active file
Data View basics
Selecting the active area
Scrolling
Editing a file
Basic editing operations
Clipboard operations
Undo/Redo operations
Searching and Replacing in files
Searching in files
Replacing in files
Exporting Data
Export Patterns
Export Dialog
Performing bitwise operations
5. Customizing Bless
Configuration Files
Preferences
General Preferences
Undo Preferences
Session Preferences
Layout Files
Selecting a layout
Creating Layout Files
Extending with plugins
6. Frequently Asked Questions
7. About Bless
*List of Figures*
3.1. Bless Start Up Window
4.1. Closing a tab
4.2. Cursor in focused and not focused areas
4.3. Go to Offset Bar
4.4. Select Range Bar
4.5. Edit mode statusbar display
4.6. Statusbar number base
4.7. Search Bar
4.8. Replace Bar
4.9. Export Dialog
4.10. Bitwise Operations Bar
5.1. General Preferences
5.2. Undo Preferences
5.3. Session Preferences
5.4. Standard offset-hex-ascii view
5.5. Display tag hierarchy
5.6. Example layout
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