EMILUA(3em)

💅 EMILUA (3em) — the em manual, bestie edition 🎀

Okay so real talk: this page is all about Emilua, the Lua execution engine, and no cap it's a tiny page — but we're gonna treat it with the respect it deserves. ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

Emilua — the Lua execution engine. That's her. That's the whole vibe. 👑

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

Like, here's literally the shape of it:

local fs = require "filesystem"
fs.weakly_canonical(p: fs.path) -> fs.path

First you pull in the "filesystem" module with require and stash it in fs, then you call fs.weakly_canonical on a fs.path and it hands you back another fs.path. Simple as that, iykyk. 💖

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

So fs.weakly_canonical(p) returns a path in normal form that references the same file system location as p.

That's it. That's the function. She's lowkey iconic for being this straightforward — no drama, no surprises, just a tidy normal-form path pointing at the exact same spot as p. 🫶

Not me being obsessed with a one-line description… but honestly? Slay. 💅

🧚 a lil sign-off 🧚

This absolute gem came from Emilua 0.12.1-nixpkgs1, dated 1980-01-01 — yes, that date is real, and yes, it's giving main character energy. 🌈⭐

Byeee, go canonicalize something (weakly, obviously). 💜🦋