GVEDIT(1)

📦 version 16.1.0, in arch rolling, opensuse-leap 16.0, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💅 gvedit — the manual page, but make it cute ✨

okay bestie, so this is gvedit, from the General Commands Manual (section 1, obvi). it's a whole vibe and we're gonna get into it 💖

🌸 NAME 🌸

gvedit — a simple graph editor and viewer. that's it, that's the whole name. short, sweet, iconic 👑

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

gvedit [ -sv? ] [ file ]

look at her. so simple. so powerful. 🫶

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so gvedit is literally a simple graph editor and viewer. and the way that it lets you have so many graphs open at the same time?? obsessed. every graph gets its own lil text window, like each one is the main character of its own story 💅

you can also just hand it the name of a Graphviz file right there on the command line, and boom — that graph file opens automatically on start-up. no cap, it just does it ✨

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

here's everything she supports, bestie. don't skip these, they matter:

  • -s — okay so listen. by default, the layout algorithms that use initial positions from a node's pos attribute (right now that's fdp and neato) assume those coordinates are in inches. but like, super frequently the input graph has them in points instead — especially if the graph was output by a Graphviz layout algorithm. so this flag scales the coordinates from points to inches for you. it's giving "let me fix that for you" 🧚
  • -v — verbose mode. she'll tell you more about what's going on 📢
  • -? — prints usage information and exits. the classic "wait how do i use this" button 🙈

👑 AUTHOR 👑

these legends made it happen:

  • Arif Bilgin <arif@research.att.com>
  • Emden R. Gansner <erg@research.att.com>

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

ngl, that's the whole page. every flag, every author, every see-also. periodt 💜

and that's a wrap, bestie 🎀 this lil page came to you from 4 April 2011, out of the General Commands Manual, filed under GVEDIT(1) — so you know it's official. slay 💅✨🦋

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