DRRACKET(1)

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✨ DRRACKET ✨ (that's the drracket(1) page, bestie)

okay so welcome to the glow-up of the General Commands Manual 💅 this is the whole thing, every crumb, no skips. grab a strawberry 🍓 and let's go.

🎀 NAME 🎀

drracket — the Racket programming environment

like. the whole vibe. the editor. the everything. periodt.

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

drracket [ Xoption ...  ] [ file ...  ]

that's it. that's the whole entrance. very demure, very mindful. ✨

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

DrRacket is the Racket programming environment. it's giving main character energy fr fr 💖

and here's the thing you actually need to know: the drracket program treats non-switch command-line arguments as files to open. so if you hand it a file name, it just... opens it. no ceremony. slay.

💅 X OPTIONS 💅

when it's running in X11, DrRacket accepts these standard Xoptions and honestly the list is long but we're not skipping a single one, iykyk:

  • -display disp — tells it which display to use
  • -geometry geom — sets the geometry, obviously
  • -bg color — background color
  • -background color — also background color, same energy
  • -fg color — foreground color
  • -foreground color — foreground color again, twin behavior
  • -fn font — the font
  • -font font — the font, but spelled all the way out
  • -iconic — iconic 😌 (literally starts it iconified)
  • -name name — sets the name
  • -rv — reverse video
  • -reverse — reverse video, full word edition
  • +rv — and the plus version, which un-reverses it
  • -selectionTimeout time — selection timeout value
  • -synchronous — synchronous mode
  • -title name — sets the title
  • -xnllanguage lang — the language setting
  • -xrm file — the X resource file
💀 also!! there's -singleInstance, and it gets treated like an X option, which means it must appear before all other options. no exceptions bestie, it's first or it's nothing.

and what does it do? it runs DrRacket in single-instance mode ✨ in single-instance mode, when an existing instance is already running with the same host and executable name, all the non-option arguments get treated as file names and sent over to that existing instance. so like, they all pile into the same party instead of throwing new ones 🫶 iconic.

🌈 MORE INFORMATION 🌈

need more? want the deep lore? run this:

raco docs

and it opens the installed documentation right up in your web browser. cute, right? 🎀

or, alternately, you can consult the on-line documentation and other information available at:

http://racket-lang.org/

go. click. absorb. 🦋

👑 AUTHOR 👑

DrRacket was implemented by PLT. legends only, no cap. 💜

⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

the whole friend group fr fr 💖

and that's a wrap!! this page came to you courtesy of the 4th Berkeley Distribution, dated May 2010 🌸 mwah, go open some files bestie 💅✨

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