TEAPOT(1)

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💅 TEAPOT(1) — like, the manual page for teapot, bestie ✨

okay so real talk, this is teapot(1), section 1 of the manual, and it's genuinely such a vibe. sit down, grab a strawberry 🍓, and let's get into it.

🌸 NAME 🌸

teapot — Table Editor And Planner, Or: Teapot! ✨ like yes, the name is the acronym is the name, she's self-referential, she's iconic, that's just her brand 💅

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

teapot [-abHqr] [-p digits] [file]

that's it. that's the whole invocation. slay.

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so teapot — full government name Table Editor And Planner, Or Teapot! — is a compact spreadsheet program. and when I say compact I mean she's tiny but she is booked and busy, because she's got:

  • three dimensions with linear addressing 😭 yes THREE
  • relative references
  • formula references
  • type safety of computations
  • iterative expressions
  • and a platform independent file format 🫶
heads up bestie: this document only covers the command-line arguments. it is NOT the whole manual, don't come for me.

for the full lore, the complete manual lives at /usr/share/doc/teapot in both html and pdf format, no cap. and if you're in the graphical version, fteapot, you can also pull the manual up straight from the Help menu 👑

✨ OPTIONS ✨

every single flag, present and accounted for, no gatekeeping:

  • -a — use ASCII instead of XDR as the default file format when loading or saving. switching up the format, we love a flexible queen.
  • -b — read batch commands from standard input. feed her through the pipe, she eats 🍽️
  • -H — hide row and column headers. minimalism. clean lines. she understood the assignment.
  • -q — display strings quoted. quotes stay ON, we're being precise today 💅
  • -r — redraw the terminal window more often. she's a little high-maintenance about refreshing and honestly? same.
  • -p digits — set default precision of displayed numbers. digits is a placeholder, put an actual number there bestie, it's giving math 🧮

🌈 ENVIRONMENT 🌈

  • DISPLAY — see X(7). that's the whole entry, she's brief, she's mysterious, she said iykyk 💀

⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

  • /usr/share/doc/teapot/ — the sacred texts, go read them 🫶

👑 LICENSE 👑

okay this part is serious, pay attention, these people are the reason she exists:

Copyright (C) 1995-2006 Michael Haardt

Copyright (C) 2009-2012 info@syntax-k.de Jörg Walter

Manual page written by wavexx@users.sf.net Yuri D'Elia

and now the legal bit, kept fully intact because it matters fr fr:

this program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

this program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. see the GNU General Public License for more details.

you should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. if not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/

🫶 translation: it's free, it's open, it comes with zero promises, that's the deal, that's the whole deal.

and that's the page!! this little beauty is dated Dicember 8, 2010 (yes, Dicember, she said what she said 💀) and she's page TEAPOT(1) of the manual. bye bestie, go edit some tables 💖✨🎀🦋🌸💅

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