PROOFGENERAL(1)

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💖 PROOFGENERAL 💖

okay bestie, so this is proofgeneral from the General Commands Manual — it's a whole manual page, section 1, and it's about to become your new fave way to launch Emacs. no cap. 🦋

✨ NAME ✨

proofgeneral — starts up Emacs and hits you with the Proof General splash screen. that's the whole job. iconic behavior honestly. 👑

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

proofgeneral files...

yep. that's it. you just hand it some files... and it does its thing. 💅

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

so here's the tea: proofgeneral is literally just an abbreviation for this exact command right here:

emacs -f proof-splash-display-screen

that means when you run it, it fires up emacs, throws the Proof General splash screen up on your screen, and then behaves otherwise identical to emacs. same energy, same vibes, just with a lil splash moment first. ✨

and here's the slay part — wanna start Proof General in Coq mode for a file? just do:

proofgeneral file.v

and boom, you're in Coq mode for file.v. it's giving effortless. it's giving main character energy. 🫶

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

  • emacs(1) — go read that one too bestie, they're connected fr fr 💜

👑 AUTHOR 👑

the proofgeneral script and this very manual page were written by Hendrik Tews <hendrik@askra.de> — specifically for the Debian project, and the page notes it may be used by others too. we love a generous king. 🎀

not me getting emotional over a shell script wrapper. anyway. go start Emacs, bestie. 💖

little sign-off moment: this page is dated January 6, 2012, lives in the General Commands Manual, and its header/footer both just say PROOFGENERAL(1). so yeah — vintage page, timeless slay. 💅🌸🦋

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