VYM(1)

💖 VYM — View Your Mind 💖

okay bestie, sit DOWN, because this is the mind-mapping tool and it's lowkey iconic. The title up top says VYM(1) and the manual is literally just called Mind mapping tool — that's the whole vibe. Let's get into it. 🧚✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

VYM — View Your Mind. That's it, that's the name, and honestly? Slay. 👑

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

vym [ options ] [ file1 file2 ...  ]

no cap, you just throw a vym, sprinkle some options on top, and then yeet in as many files as your little heart desires. 🦋

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

VYM (View Your Mind) is a tool to generate and manipulate maps which show your thoughts. Yes bestie, maps of your BRAIN. 🧠✨

Such maps can help you to improve your creativity and effectivity. It's giving productivity glow-up. You can use them for:

• time management ⏰
• to organize tasks ✅
• to get an overview over complex contexts 🌈
• to sort your ideas 💭
• etc.

And some people even think it is fun to work with such maps… and they are SO right and we love that for them. 🫶 (The manpage says "some people", the manpage is being shy. It's us. We're the people. 😭)

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

Every single flag, right here, no skips, no skimming, because I love you and I want you to have ALL the info. 💖

• -b, --batch — Batch mode: hide graphical windows. No window, just vibes. Headless-era behavior. 👻
• -c, --commands — Show all available commands. Every command it's got, laid out for you. 📜
• -d, --debug — Show debugging output. For when you need to see what's actually going on under the hood, bestie. 🔍
• -h, --help — Show this help text. Classic. The -h we all know and love. 🫶
• -L, --load — Load script. 📥
• -l, --local — Run with resources in current directory. (Only needed for development) 🛠️
• --locale — Override system locale setting to select languag. 🌍 (yes that word is spelled exactly like that up there, I'm not touching it, iykyk)
• -n, --name <STRING> — Set name of this vym instance to STRING. This is used to identify this instance on DBus. 🏷️ Like a little name tag so DBus knows which twin is which.
• -q, --quit — Quit immediately after start for benchmarking. In and out, no notes, purely for the numbers. ⏱️
• -r, --run <FILE> — Run script FILE. 📄
• -R, --restore — Restore last session. Your last session said "come back" and this flag said "say less". 🔁
• -s, --shortcuts — Show Keyboard shortcuts on start. ⌨️✨
• -sl, --shortcutsLaTeX — Show Keyboard shortcuts in LaTeX format on start. For the LaTeX girlies. You know who you are. 📐
• -t --test — Test mode, e.g. no autosave and changing of its setting. 🧪 careful, it won't autosave and it won't let you change that setting, fr fr.
• -v, --version — Show vym version. 🏷️

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📁 FILES 📁

The important little paths, bestie:

• /usr/bin/vym — Main Executable. 🚀 This is the actual program, the main character.
• $HOME/.config/InSilmaril/vym.conf — Configuration file. ⚙️ Your settings live here.
• /tmp/vym-XXXXXX — Runtime data for each vym instance, including undo-/redo history and clipboard. 📋 Heads up: this is per-instance runtime data, and yes, it's holding your undo/redo history AND your clipboard in there. 😭

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🚦 EXIT STATUS 🚦

• 0 — Successful program execution. ✅ We love a clean exit, no notes, periodt. 💅

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Uwe Drechsel <vym@insilmaril.de> — the legend behind it all. 🫶

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

Main documentation in /usr/share/doc/packages/vym/vym.pdf 📄✨ go read the pdf bestie, it's the whole lore.

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And that's the whole page, babe. The footer at the bottom just says vym with July 2012 as the date — so yeah, this manual has been serving since 2012 and it's still eating. 💖 bye bestie, go make some maps! 🗺️👑💅