MARIA-VIS(1)

💖 MARIA-VIS 💖

okay bestie, gather round, we're doing maria-vis from the General Commands Manual and honestly? it's giving niche-but-iconic. 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

maria-vis — graph visualization script for maria 🦋

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

maria-vis

that's it. that's the whole vibe. no flags, no args, just send it. 💅

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🧚 DESCRIPTION 🧚

so this manual page is the little intro doc for the maria-vis command — like, briefly, here's what it is. 📖✨

maria-vis is a lefty script that gets invoked by maria so it can visually present information to you, the user. main character behavior, honestly. 👑

the script reads commands and directives from standard input, and it may write maria query language commands to standard output. and the moment it hits an end-of-file condition on standard input? script's over. done. terminated. ✋😭

now, the lore: this script is built on top of the dotty script that ships as part of the GraphViz package. so it's standing on the shoulders of legends fr fr.

here's the tea on how it works 🫖 — the commands prefixed with visual in maria send this script two kinds of commands:

• new();
• add();

and each one gets followed by a newline character and a graph definition in the dot input language. 💖

what do they do, you ask? say less:

• the new function in the script displays the graph in a new window 🪟✨
• the add function copies information from the graph to the last modified graph 🧬

no cap, that's the whole mechanism. 🍓

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• dot(1)
• dotty(1)
• lefty(1)
• maria(1)

(the whole squad, assembled 🫶)

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

this manual page was written by Marko Mäkelä <msmakela@tcs.hut.fi>. 💌

the maria-vis script and the visualization option were designed and implemented by Marko Mäkelä too — we love a multi-hyphenate. 🙈

and if you want the fine print, please see the copyright file in /usr/share/doc/maria for details. 📄

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⭐ shoutout to this page's August 10, 2001 era energy — that's the date on this icon, and the source is this very maria-vis page from the General Commands Manual. 💜✨ mwah, go visualize something, bestie. 🎀