page_intro(3tcl)

📦 version 2.0, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💖 page_intro — page introduction 💖

okay so this is a 3tcl manual page, bestie, and it's the lil' intro to the whole page fam 🫶

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

page (short for parser generator, iykyk) is actually a whole set of related packages. They're here to help you build parser generators, plus other utilities that do text processing. it's giving toolbelt energy 🔥

They're mainly geared towards supporting the Tcllib application page, with the package page::pluginmgr in a central role as the plugin management for that application. the way it's literally the main character of the whole setup 💅

The other packages are out here doing low-level text processing and utility tasks geared towards parser generation, and they're mainly accessed by page through plugins. so like, they don't really do the talking — they work behind the scenes, periodt.

heads up bestie: the packages implementing the plugins are not documented as regular packages. why? because they can't be loaded into a general interpreter — like tclsh — without extensive preparation of the interpreter. that preparation is done for them by the plugin manager, so don't just try to load them yourself and expect a slay 😭

🐛 BUGS, IDEAS, FEEDBACK 🐛

ngl, this document — and the package it describes — will undoubtedly contain bugs and other problems. it's not a vibe, but it's real. please report such in the category page of the Tcllib Trackers at http://core.tcl.tk/tcllib/reportlist 🫶

also please report any ideas for enhancements you may have for either the package and/or the documentation. we want the glow-up ideas too ✨

When proposing code changes, please provide unified diffs, i.e. the output of diff -u. that's the format we want, no cap.

Note further that attachments are strongly preferred over inlined patches. how do you attach? go to the Edit form of the ticket immediately after its creation, and then use the left-most button in the secondary navigation bar. that's the one, bestie 👑

🔑 KEYWORDS 🔑

  • page
  • parser generator
  • text processing

🎀 CATEGORY 🎀

Page Parser Generator

Copyright (c) 2007 Andreas Kupries <andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net>

okay that's the whole page, bestie, and we are done ✨ this one came from tcllib, version 1.0, and it lives under the manual name page_intro(3tcl). go forth and generate some parsers, you absolute icon 💅🌸🦋

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