SENT(1)

📦 version 1, in alpine 3.24, debian bookworm, debian trixie, nixos 26.05, nixpkgs unstable, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

✨ SENT(1) ✨

okay bestie, so the manual name is sent and honestly? she's that girl 💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

sent — simple plaintext presentation tool

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

sent [-v] [file]

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

okay so sent is a simple plain text presentation tool for X. and the way that it does NOT need LaTeX, LibreOffice, or any other fancy file format?? iconic. literally zero drama. instead, sent reads plain text describing the slides. and get this — sent can also draw images. versatility queen fr fr 👑

every paragraph represents a slide in the presentation. especially for presentations using the Takahashi method this is very nice and allows you to write the presentation for a quick lightning talk within a few minutes. like, a few minutes. main character speedrun energy ⚡

✨ OPTIONS ✨

  • -v — Print version information to stdout and exit. that's it, that's the whole flag, and she ate 🎀

🫶 USAGE 🫶

🖱️ Mouse commands

  • Button1 | Button5 — Go to next slide, if existent.
  • Button3 | Button4 — Go to previous slide, if existent.

⌨️ Keyboard commands

  • Escape | q — Quit.
  • r — Reload the slides. Only works on file input.
  • Right | Return | Space | l | j | Down | Next | n — Go to next slide, if existent.
  • Left | Backspace | h | k | Up | Prior | p — Go to previous slide, if existent.

🎀 FORMAT 🎀

The presentation file is made up of at least one paragraph, with an empty line separating two slides. Each input line is interpreted literally, except from control characters at the beginning of lines described as follows:

  • @ — Create individual slide containing the image pointed to by the filename following the @.
  • # — Ignore this input line.
  • \ — Create input line using the characters following the \ without interpreting them.
ngl the backslash one is the sneaky little escape hatch 🍓

💜 CUSTOMIZATION 💜

sent can be customized by creating a custom config.h and (re)compiling the source code. This keeps it fast, secure and simple. DIY queen behavior, we love to see it 🌈

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

2ff(1)

and that's the whole vibe check, bestie — this little cutie is dated 2016-08-12 and lives in the SENT(1) section of the manual 💖 stay slaying, and remember: every paragraph is a slide 🦋✨

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