term(3tcl)

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version 2.0 · 2 versions
, in debian trixie, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💖 term — the general terminal control page, bestie 💖

okay so this is term(3tcl) from the Terminal control section of the manual. yes it's a real manual page. yes it's for a package that does... absolutely nothing yet. and yes, we're still gonna read it together because that's what besties do 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

term — General terminal control. that's it. that's the name. iconic, honestly 👑

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

package require Tcl 8.5 9

package require term ?0.2?

so like, you need Tcl 8.5 or 9, and then you pull in term, and the version is optional — leave it off and you get whatever default, 0.2 if you say it out loud. simple. clean. no notes 💅

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

okay bestie, sit down, because this is the part where I have to be real with you 😭

The plan — the vision, the dream, the main character arc — is for this package to hand you high-level general terminal control commands. We're talking ncurses energy. We're talking similar packages energy. The whole aesthetic.

Currently nothing has been implemented however.

like. nothing. zero. not one command.

I.e. this package is empty.

🫠 not me writing an entire manual page for a package with no contents in it

It can be loaded, though — that part totally works — yet provides nothing. So you can package require it and it'll be like "hey girl hey ✨" and then just stand there. Vibe check passed, functionality: not present. 💀

✨ BUGS, IDEAS, FEEDBACK ✨

ngl this document, and the package it describes, will undoubtedly contain bugs and other problems. like, obviously. it's software. it's giving "we know" 🙈

so please report them in the category term of the Tcllib Trackers: http://core.tcl.tk/tcllib/reportlist. and while you're there, please also report any ideas for enhancements you may have — for either the package and/or the documentation. we want the thoughts, we want the dreams, we want all of it 🌈

when you're proposing code changes, please provide unified diffs — i.e. the output of diff -u. this is the love language of maintainers, fr fr 💜

⚠️ also note: attachments are strongly preferred over inlined patches. like, strongly. attachments ate and left no crumbs. how do you attach? easy bestie: 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. that's the button. 🎀

✨ KEYWORDS ✨

  • control
  • terminal

(the whole personality in two words, honestly)

✨ CATEGORY ✨

Terminal control 🖥️✨

Copyright (c) 2006 Andreas Kupries <andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net>

shoutout to Andreas Kupries for this absolute classic, we stan 🫶

and that's the page!! 💖 this was tcllib version 0.2, and the whole thing is filed under term(3tcl) — thanks for reading a manual page about a package that is, and I quote, empty. obsessed with us. periodt. 💅✨🦋

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