SNEKDE(1)

📦 version 1.13, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

✨ SNEKDE — the Snek Development Environment ✨

okay bestie, gather round 💖 this is snekde, aka the Snek Development Environment — a whole entire IDE for Snek running on embedded computers. yes it lives in your terminal. yes it's iconic. no you don't need a mouse, we'll get to that.

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

snekde [OPTION]...

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • --port <serial port> — tells snekde which serial port to use when it talks to the target device. that's the one and only option, she's simple like that 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so snekde is an integrated development environment for Snek on embedded computers. it runs right there in your terminal and shows you two panes:

  • the upper pane is the editor pane — this is where you edit your Snek source code ✍️
  • the lower pan is the interaction pane — it displays output from the target device and sends commands to the target device 🔌

two panes, one bestie, zero drama.

💜 KEY BINDINGS 💜

snekde is entirely keyboard operated — it does not use the mouse at all, not even a little bit. for the most part, both panes accept the same commands, and normal characters just get inserted into the current pane. lowkey elegant fr fr.

  • Page-Up/Page-Down — these change the current pane, moving from the edit pane to the interaction pane and back 🔁
  • Ctrl-X/Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V — the bindings for Cut/Copy/Paste operations ✂️
  • Ctrl-C — plot twist 👀 in the interaction pane, Ctrl-C does not copy text. instead, it interrupts execution in the target device. so yeah, context matters, know which pane you're in bestie.
  • Function keys — F1–F6 perform various global operations, and these operations are displayed at the top of the screen so you're never lost:
    • F1 selects a new target device 🎯
    • F2/F3 get and put the contents of the edit pane to the target device program storage 💾
    • F5/F6 load and save the edit pane contents to files on the local computer 📁
  • Movement — the usual cursor keys, along with Home and End, move the cursor within the current pane 🕹️
ngl the whole thing is keyboard-only and that's the vibe. no mouse, no chaos, just you and the keys.

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Keith Packard

and that's the whole page, bestie 🫶 this was snekde from the General Commands Manual, page SNEKDE(1) — go forth and slay your embedded Snek code 🌈✨💖

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