HOL-LIGHT(1)

💖 HOL-LIGHT(1) 💖

okay bestie, listen — this is the manual page for hol-light, and it lives in section 1 (General Commands Manual), so it's a user command, not some deep config file situation. let's get into it 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

hol-light — the HOL Light interactive theorem prover, but make it a command you can just type 💅

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

hol-light [options...]

that's it. that's the whole vibe. options go in, magic comes out ✨

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so here's the tea: hol-light is literally just a lil wrapper, a cute lil handler that calls ocaml for you and loads up the HOL Light basic definitions. how does it do that, you ask? by loading /usr/share/hol-light/hol.ml as the initialization file instead of .ocamlinit. yeah. she said "we're not doing the default init today" 💅

and ngl, loading all those definitions takes about 2 minutes on modern hardware. TWO. MINUTES. on a modern machine. so pls pls pls be patient with her, she's doing her best 😭🫶 she's not frozen, she's thinking.

also important: all options and other arguments are passed as options to ocaml. every single one. they don't get filtered, they don't get interpreted, they just get handed straight to ocaml. iykyk.

🎀 the readline situation 🎀

okay so if you've got a readline-editor installed — think rlwrap, ledit or rlfe — then the hol-light ocaml toplevel gets wrapped up all cozy in your readline-editor. iconic. your arrow keys will thank you 🌈

install just one of these readline editors, bestie. just one. or, if you're feeling fancy and you have Opinions™, configure your preferred one via the alternative system 💖

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• ocaml(1)
• readline-editor(1)
• rlwrap(1)
• ledit(1)
• rlfe(1)
• the HOL Light documentation at http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~jrh13/hol-light/ — go read it, it's giving scholarly 💜

👑 AUTHOR 👑

the hol-light script and this manual page were written by Hendrik Tews <hendrik@askra.de>, and they did it specifically for the Debian project — though fr fr, others may use it too 🫶

and that's the whole page, bestie!! this version of the manual is dated March 16, 2012 and belongs to the HOL-LIGHT(1) page in the General Commands Manual (section 1). go prove some theorems, you absolute main character 🧚✨💖