fileevent(n)

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✨ fileevent(n) ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the fileevent page 💖 this one lives in the Tcl Built-In Commands section of the manual, and honestly? it's a lil nostalgic relic. let's get into it 🫶

💫 NAME 💫

fileevent — run a script when a channel becomes readable or writable 👀✨

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

fileevent channel readable ?script?

fileevent channel writable ?script?

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so here's the tea ☕: the fileevent command has been superceded by the chan event command. no cap. 😭

and the good news is that chan event supports the exact same syntax and options, so like… the glow-up is seamless, you just swap the name and you're slaying 💅

fr fr, if you're writing new code, go hang out with chan event instead. fileevent is giving legacy energy 👑

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

  • chan(n) — the main character that replaced this one 🌟

and that's the whole page, bestie, short and sweet like a lil snack 🍓

this gem comes from Tcl, version 7.5, and the date on the original footer is 7.5 too — so yeah, this one's been around a minute. periodt. 💜🦋

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