RED(nged)

Creates a file describing the specified combination and starts an editor for the user to modify the combination.

📅 published 7.44.0, from nixpkgs unstable

💅 RED(nged) — the BRL-CAD glow-up edit 💅

okay bestie, welcome to the BRL-CAD User Commands corner of the manual, where today's main character is red — yes that's the nged one, don't @ me ✨

🎀 NAME 🎀

red — creates a file describing the specified combination and starts an editor for you (the user, the icon, the legend) to modify that combination. periodt. 🫶

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

red {combination}

that's it. that's the whole vibe check. 🌸

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so here's the tea: red creates a file describing the combination you picked and then starts up an editor so you can go in and modify that combination. literally that simple, no cap. 🦋

the editor it uses? that's decided by the EDITOR environment variable — she reads it, she respects it, she slays. but if EDITOR isn't set, then it falls back to /bin/ed. yes, that /bin/ed. old school. iconic in a feral way. 💀

all the attributes of BRL-CAD regions and combinations may be edited this way — all of them, bestie, the whole wardrobe. 👑

heads up though: the region-specific attributes will be ignored if the combination is not a region and is not set to be a region during editing. so like, if it's not a region and you didn't make it one mid-edit, those attributes are just gonna sit there being ignored. rude but true. 🙈

and good news — it is not necessary to be in an editing mode to run this command. you can just... run it. go off. 🔥

also, lowkey, the rm, r, comb, c, and g commands provide some basic combination editing capabilities, if that's more your speed. iykyk. ⭐

🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

the example shows the use of the red command to edit a specified combination with the user's editor. we love a demonstration. 💜

🌸 Example 1. Create a file describing a specified combination and edit the combination. 🌸

mged>red group2

edits the combination group2 with the user's editor of choice. she's editing, she's thriving, she's in her editor-of-choice era. 🧚

👑 AUTHOR 👑

BRL-CAD Team — the group chat admin of this whole operation. 🫶

💀 BUG REPORTS 💀

reports of bugs or problems should be submitted via electronic mail to devs@brlcad.org — fr fr, if something's cursed, tell the devs, they wanna know. 📧

and that's the whole page, bestie 🎀 — brought to you by BRL-CAD and this very RED(nged) manual, signed off with love and zero dates to speak of 💅✨🍓

📦 where this page comes from