Quill Manual

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User's Configuration

The user has a configuration file, ~/.quill.config. There is no dialogue for it as yet, so you'll have to know how to edit it. It has to be a string that array set can use. Here's a default-valued file:

proFamily Times
fixFamily Courier
baseSize 12
minSize 10
scrollSide se
index index
home x-quill:/quill
chunkSize 512
connections 10

There are also proxy settings which are defaulted from environment variables, either libwww's "http_proxy" and "ftp_proxy" or (v0.14) cURL's "HTTP_PROXY" and "FTP_PROXY".

Here's a dictionary of the settings:

proFamily: the proportional-width type family
fixFamily: the fixed-width type family
baseSize: the base type size
minSize: the smallest type size to use (This keeps sites such as Ajuba's, that are overly-fond of <font size=-1>, readable while allowing a base size that puts a useful amount of text on the screen.)
scrollSide: the sides to use for scrollbars; should be one of n, s and one of e, w
index: the name of the index file used by x-file
home: the startup URL
chunkSize: size of chunk to read from/write to network
connections: number of simultaneous connections (v0.14)
proxyHTTP: boolean indicating whether to proxy HTTP
HTTPproxyHost: host for HTTP proxy
HTTPproxyPort: port for HTTP proxy
proxyFTP: boolean indicating whether to proxy FTP (via HTTP) (currently this is the only way to use FTP)
FTPproxyHost: host for FTP proxy
FTPproxyPort: port for FTP proxy
libdir: names the directory with the other pieces of Quill, and should only be changed with caution