OVER(1)

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🌸 OVER(1) — the over manual, bestie edition 🌸

okay so welcome to the over page of the manual, section 1 (that's the user commands girlies 💅). it does exactly one thing and it does it gorgeously: pretty print + scroll source code on your terminal. let's get into it ✨

✨ NAME ✨

over — pretty print and scroll source code on terminal 🦋

like. that's the whole vibe. source code, but make it cute and scrollable. periodt.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

over [FILE]...

yep that's it. you hand it files, it does its thing. no cap.

✨ DECRIPTION ✨

(and yes the section is literally spelled like that in the original, i'm not touching it, it's iconic 🙈)

so what happens: over pretty prints the source code inside the *FILE*s. 💖

the language gets guessed for you by the states program — no, you don't have to tell it, it just knows, main character energy fr fr — and then enscript is the one that actually does the formatting. the glow-up department, if you will. ✨

and the highlighting rules? those live in /usr/share/enscript/hl/enscript.st. that's where all the colour magic is defined, iykyk. 🎀

then the *FILE*s get paged through less so you can scroll around and actually read the thing without your terminal just dumping 4000 lines at you and calling it a day. more convenient display, as the elders say. 😌

✨ FILES ✨

  • /usr/share/enscript/hl/enscript.st — rules for various languages 🌈

that's the file. that's where the rules live. go look at it if you're nosy (respectfully). 👑

✨ SEE ALSO ✨

go read those too bestie, they're the supporting cast and they ate 🫶

✨ AUTHOR ✨

Markku Rossi <mtr@iki.fi> <http://www.iki.fr/~mtr> 💜

absolute legend, we stan.

heads up: the only thing over takes is [FILE]... — there are no options or flags on this page, so don't go looking for a -h that isn't there. it's minimal and it knows it. 💀

and that's the whole page!! OVER, from the OVER manual, dated Jan 16, 2000 — yeah it's an old one and it still slays. take care of yourselves, hydrate, read your source code in style 💖✨🎀🦋

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