CommandLineOptions

Command line options to RNAStructViz

RNAStructViz supports a number of runtime command line options that can be invoked when running the application from a typical Unix or Mac OSX terminal. Note that all of the options documented below need to be ordered first on the command line (after the application name) before passing any other options that can be optionally parsed by the FLTK windowing library also at runtime.

List of active command line options

• --about: Print information about the compile-time build and environment settings for your install of RNAStructViz. It is highly recommended that you include a copy of this output before reporting a new issue about the application.
• --debug,-V: Print extra (very verbose) debugging messages to the user's terminal at runtime. Useful for testing, hacking, and debugging.
• --help,-h: Display help for the application and exit.
• --new-config: Resets the configuration files in the user's home directory to their default settings. A date-stamped copy of the existing saved configuration files is made when this option is invoked.
• --no-ansi-color: Suppress printing of ANSI color codes to the terminal when writing messages to stderr.
• --no-unicode: Suppress printing of Unicode characters and emojis to the terminal when posting status messages to the user during the run of the application.
• --quiet,-q: Attempt to suppress all output to the terminal while running RNAStructViz.
• --verbose,-v: Print extra status and warning messages to the user's terminal at runtime.