CHILIGHT(1)

📦 version 1.6, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💖 chilight(1) — the glow-up your C code deserves 💖

okay bestie, listen. this is a page from the LOCAL manual, section 1, and it's about a lil tool called chilight. no cap, it's the moment your boring plaintext C file becomes ✨aesthetic✨. let's get into it 🫶

🌸 NAME 🌸

chilight — highlight a C source file

like... it literally makes your C code pretty. that's the whole job. iconic behavior honestly 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

chilight [-V] [-f format] [-o file] [-t title] [-w width] [file ...]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

The chilight utility colorizes the input file, which is expected to be written in the C language, using text attributes or markups. she's not here to read your Rust, she's here to make your C sparkle 💖

The options are as follows:

  • -f format — sets the output format to format. The format can be one of: ansi_color, ansi_bold, html_color, html_font, roff or tty (and tty is the default, so if you don't say anything she just goes with the vibe). pick your fighter, bestie 🌈
  • -o file — sets the output destination to file. like, where does the pretty go? you tell her 📬
  • -t title — specifies the page title for the generated HTML page. yes, that's the lil thing in the browser tab 🎀
  • -V — prints version information on standard output, then exits. quick lil flex and she's out ✌️
  • -w width — sets the tab width for the roff style. Tabulator characters get converted to suitable amounts of space characters so the typographic quality on roff output is just... better, you know? 🌸 Acceptable values are in the range 1..16, which should be ample for most situations. don't get weird with it 🫶
fr fr, -w only does anything for the roff style. the other formats don't care. iykyk 💀

👑 AUTHORS 👑

  • Sandro Sigala <sandro@sigala.it> — original version 🌟
  • Jukka A. Ukkonen <jau@iki.fi> — roff and tty formats, better handling of #xxx preprocessor directives and some minor changes 💜

💌 the sign-off 💌

this lil treasure came from Debian, and this version is dated July 15, 2001. that's the CHILIGHT(1) page, bestie — go make your C files look like main character energy 🔥💅✨

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