EC_INTERACT_PRINT_HELPS(3)

💖 EC_INTERACT_PRINT_HELPS(3) 💖

okay bestie so this is a page from the Libecoli Programmer's Manual and it's all about one little function, ec_interact_print_helps, which is here to print out the helps you already generated with ec_interact_get_helps(). yes, it's giving "print the thing you just made" energy and honestly? iconic. 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

ec_interact_print_helps — Print helps generated with ec_interact_get_helps().

like literally that's its whole job and it ate. 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

#include <ecoli/interact.h>

int ec_interact_print_helps(
    FILE                            *out,    /* The pointer to the output stream. */
    unsigned int                     width,  /* The number of columns on terminal. */
    /*
     * The helps array returned by ec_interact_get_helps().
     */
    const struct ec_interact_help   *helps,
    /*
     * The array size returned by ec_interact_get_helps().
     */
    size_t                           n
);

so you're passing in:

• out — the pointer to the output stream, like where the words actually go. stream queen 👑
• width — the number of columns on terminal, so it knows how much room it's working with fr fr
• helps — the helps array returned by ec_interact_get_helps(), no cap, that's where it came from
• n — the array size returned by ec_interact_get_helps() 🦋

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🧚 STRUCTURES 🧚

A structure describing a contextual help. it's very demure, very mindful, and it looks like this:

struct ec_interact_help {
};

yes bestie that's the whole thing, it's an empty struct in the source, we do not make the rules, we just print them 💀✨

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💜 RETURN VALUE 💜

0 on success, or -1 on error. that's it, that's the vibe check 🫶

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

the group chat, the whole squad, everybody's here, go read these too:

• ec_interact_get_completions(3)
• ec_interact_print_error_helps(3)
• ec_interact_print_cols(3)
• ec_interact_set_help(3)
• ec_interact_append_chars(3)
• ec_interact_set_desc(3)
• ec_interact_get_callback(3)
• ec_interact_set_callback(3)
• ec_interact_get_error_helps(3)
• ec_interact_free_completions(3)
• ec_interact_get_helps(3)
• ec_interact_free_helps(3)

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👑 COPYRIGHT 👑

Copyright (C) 2010-2026 Olivier Matz, Robin Jarry. 💖

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and that's the whole page bestie, mwah 💋

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