DOTTY(1)

💖 DOTTY(1) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the General Commands Manual entry for dotty — yes that's the manual name, that's where we live now, come on in 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

dotty — A Customizable Graph Editor

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

dotty [ -V ] [ -lmmode ] [ -ellev ] [ file ]

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

dotty is a graph editor for the X Window System. It can run as a standalone editor, OR as a front end for apps that use graphs. Not me being flexible 💅 — it can literally control multiple windows viewing different graphs. main character energy fr.

dotty is written on top of dot and lefty. Now, lefty is a general-purpose programmable editor for technical pictures. It has an interpretive programming language similar to AWK and C. The user interface and the graph editing operations of dotty are written as lefty functions. Programmer-defined graph operations may be loaded as well 👑. Graph layouts are made by dot, which runs as a separate process that communicates with lefty through pipes. it's giving collaboration.

If the input graph contains xdot attributes, dotty will use that to display the graph. Otherwise, it runs dot to obtain layout information. either way she's serving looks ✨

🫶 USAGE 🫶

The file name is optional. If present, the graph contained in that file is displayed in the dotty window. no file? no problem bestie 🍓

💅 OPTIONS 💅

• -V — Prints the version. that's it, that's the whole vibe.
• -lmmode — Sets the layout mode. The mode can be sync or async. The default is async.
• -ellev — Sets the mesage level. The lev can be 0 or 1. The default is 0.

not me noticing the original literally says "mesage" 😭 I am NOT fixing that, facts stay facts, typo and all, periodt.

💀 BUGS 💀

The lefty parser does not accept anonymous graphs. sobbing. no anonymous graphs allowed, she needs a name 🥲

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

dot(1), lefty(1), lneato(1), xdot(3)

dotty user guide.

and that's the whole page bestie!! go forth and edit graphs, you absolute icon 🧚✨

signing off from the very bottom of DOTTY(1) — that's the manual name, that's the footer, that's the whole thing. mwah 💜