BIDSEDITOR(1)

✨ NAME ✨

bidseditor — bestie, this is the man page for bidseditor, straight out of the Generated Python Manual, and I'm gonna tell you everything about it 💖

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

bidseditor [-h] [-b NAME] [-t NAME] bidsfolder

That's it. That's the whole vibe check. One required folder, a couple of optional flags, slay 💅

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

Okay so picture this: bidseditor opens up a graphical user interface for editing the bidsmap that the bidsmapper produced. You get to sit there and edit the BIDS data types and entities until every single run-item has a BIDS output name that's meaningful and nicely readable — like, a name you'd actually be proud of, no cap ✨

Then the (saved) bidsmap.yaml output file gets picked up by the bidscoiner to do the actual conversion of the source data into BIDS. So like, you're the one doing the important creative work, and bidscoiner is the one executing. Team effort 🫶

And here's a cute lil trick: you can hoover with your mouse over items to get help text — pop-up tooltips, bestie, they literally just appear 🦋

bidsfolder

The destination folder with the (future) bids data 👑 Like, the place where the BIDS data is gonna live. Future home of all your beautiful organized files.

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

• -b NAME, --bidsmap NAME — The study bidsmap file, aka the one holding all the mapping heuristics. Here's the important bit: if the bidsmap filename is just the base name (i.e. there's no "/" in the name), then it's assumed to be chillin' in the current directory or in bidsfolder/code/bidscoin. Default: bidsmap.yaml 🌈
• -t NAME, --template NAME — The template bidsmap file with the default heuristics (this could be provided by your institute, iykyk). Same rule as above: if the bidsmap filename is just the base name (i.e. no "/" in the name), then it's assumed to be located in the bidscoin config folder. Default: bidsmap_dccn 🎀
• -h — the standard help flag from the synopsis, bestie, it's right there in the usage line 💜

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💬 COMMENTS 💬

Okay the examples section, because honestly? Examples are the main character here 😭

bidseditor myproject/bids
bidseditor myproject/bids -t bidsmap_dccn.yaml
bidseditor myproject/bids -b my/custom/bidsmap.yaml

Look at that. Three whole moods. The plain one, the template one, and the custom-bidsmap-path one. Obsessed 🔥

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Marcel Zwiers <m.zwiers@donders.ru.nl> — the icon who made this happen, periodt 💖

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And that's the whole page, bestie. Go forth and make those run-items readable 🧚

Signing off: this is bidscoin version 4.6.2, dated 2025-11-06, from the BIDSEDITOR(1) manual. Bye babes, love u 💜✨