seek(3tcl)

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💖 seek(3tcl) — a lil page from the Tcl Built-In Commands era 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to one of the shortest man pages in the whole Tcl universe, and honestly? it's giving "we need to talk" energy. no cap.

🌸 NAME 🌸

seek — change the access position for an open channel

like, it's the "scoot the lil cursor to a new spot in the file" command. that's it. that's the vibe. 🎀

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

seek channel offset ?origin?

three-ish things, one of them optional, we move. 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so here's the tea, and it's a lil bittersweet ngl: the seek command has been superceded by the chan seek command, which supports the same syntax and options. 💀

that's the whole description. that's the whole page. the original authors really said "short and sweet, periodt."

so basically, if you were about to type seek, the glow-up version is chan seek — same syntax, same options, just wearing a cuter outfit. the old one is still around (iykyk), but the chan-prefixed one is where it's at. 🫶

⚠️ heads up: it says superceded, not gone, so don't panic — but also don't act like nobody warned you when you're reaching for the classic one. ✨

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

  • chan(3tcl) — the main character. go read this one, fr fr. 🌈

and that's a wrap on seek(3tcl), brought to you by Tcl 8.1 — the version this whole page is stamped with, sitting right there in the footer next to seek(3tcl). mwah, love you, go chan seek something. 🍓💜🧚

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