wish - interface to the Tk graphics toolkit wish [ file ... ]

wm/wish [ -k ] [ -f " file" ]

Wish provides a Tcl command line interface to the Limbo/Tk graphics toolkit. The input should be in the format of Tcl or Tk commands (see intro (9)). There are two variants.

Plain wish must be run from the Inferno console instead of mux (1) or wm (1). It takes input from each file in turn, then prompts for further commands from the standard input. Its commands operate on a Tk toplevel covering the whole screen.

Wm/wish runs instead in a shell window under wm (1). It reads initial input from the optional file , then prompts for further commands on its standard input unless the -k option is given. Its commands operate on the Tk toplevel of a new window created by Wmlib->titlebar (see wmlib (2)), initially titled WishPad .

The following special input sequences are recognised:

\en newline

\et tab

\eb backspace

\e\e backslash

/dev/pointer

/dev/keyboard

/appl/cmd/wish.b

/appl/wm/wish.b

sh-tk (1), tkcmd (1), tk (2), intro (9) Arguably this has been superseded by sh-tk (1) for scripting Tk applications, and tkcmd (1) for development and testing of Tk configurations for use by Limbo programs.