PLXORMOD(3plplot)

💅 PLXORMOD (3plplot) — the xor mode glow-up ✨

Okay bestie, so this one's from the PLplot API — like, the whole 3plplot manual family 🎀 — and it's literally the switch that flips xor mode on and off. Buckle up, it's short but it eats.

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✨ NAME ✨

plxormod — enter or leave xor mode. That's it, that's the whole vibe 🦋

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

plxormod(mode, status)

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

So, like — this enters xor mode when mode is true, and leaves xor mode when mode is false. But plot twist 🫶: it only works for those drivers that actually support it (the xwin driver is the classic example, iykyk).

What's xor mode even for? Bestie it's iconic — it enables erasing plots by drawing the same line, symbol, etc. twice. Draw it once, it appears. Draw it again, it's gone. Literally main character energy 💅✨

But ngl, if the driver is not capable of xor operation, it returns a status of false. No cap, that's just how it is 😭

Redacted form: plxormod(mode, status)

This function is used in examples 1 and 20 — so go look at those if you wanna see it in the wild 👑

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🌈 ARGUMENTS 🌈

• mode (PLBOOL(3plplot), input) — when mode is true it means enter xor mode, and when mode is false it means leave xor mode. Binary queen 🎀
• status (PLBOOL_NC_SCALAR(3plplot), output) — the returned value of the status. A modestatus of true (false) means the driver is capable (incapable) of xor mode. So true = slay, false = it's giving unsupported 💀

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👑 AUTHORS 👑

Many developers (who are credited at http://plplot.sourceforge.net/credits.php) have contributed to PLplot over its long history. Genuinely so many legends 🫶🌟

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

PLplot documentation at http://plplot.sourceforge.net/documentation.php — go read it, it's a whole thing 💜

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That's the tea, bestie 🍓 This was the PLplot API page, dated August, 2026 — catch you in the next manpage, mwah 💋✨