DHEX_MARKERS(5)

💖 DHEX_MARKERS 💖 — the marker file for dhex

okay bestie, gather round 🫶 this is the DHEX_MARKERS(5) page, a LOCAL manual situation, and it's literally all about the marker file for dhex.

✨ NAME ✨

dhex_markers — marker file for dhex

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

So. Your bookmarks for dhex(1)? They don't just float around in the void, bestie — they get stored in marker files. 💅 And this manpage right here is the whole lore on what that marker file format actually looks like. No cap.

🎀 EXAMPLE 🎀

A typical marker file is giving exactly this energy:

#DHEX MARKERS
#VERSION 0
#lines are all in hex
#relative positions are =, +, -
=0000000000000000
=0000000000001000
=0000000000002000
+0000000000001000
+0000000000002000
-0000000000001000
-0000000000002000
=00000005334ffeba
=00000000DEADBEEF
+000000000000BABE

👑 OPTIONS 👑

In that example up there, the file is split into two sections: a comment section, and a bookmark section. Two icons, both main characters. 🌈

💬 Comments

Comments are flagged with a '#' character. Everything after that '#' on the line? Ignored when the file gets parsed. Straight up not invited to the party. 🙈

🔖 Bookmark section

Bookmarks can be either absolute or relative, and the first character tells you which:

• absolute bookmark lines start with '='
• relative bookmark lines start with '+' or '-'

And the value itself is a 64 bit hexadecimal one. That's it, that's the whole vibe check. ✨

lowkey important: there should always be 10 bookmarks per file. Like, always always. 🫶

💀 BUGS 💀

Found a bug? Report it to <dettus@dettus.net>. And please bestie, make sure the word DHEX shows up somewhere in the subject line — that's the whole assignment. 😭

🦋 AUTHOR 🦋

Written by Thomas Dettbarn. king behavior, honestly. 👑

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

dhex(1), dhexrc(5), dhex_searchlog(5).

and that's the page, bestie, we ate and left no crumbs 🍓 this lil slice of Debian lore is dated May 12, 2012 and lives in the DHEX_MARKERS(5) era forever 💜 mwah, go bookmark something. 🧚