Port of the week: Sent

• Author: Solène
• Date: 15 May 2018
• Tags: unix

NILAs the new port of the week, We will discover Sent. While we could

think it is mail related, it is not. Sent is a nice software to

make presentations from a simple text file. It has been developped by

• Suckless*, a hacker community enjoying writing good software while

keeping a small and sane source code, they also made software like st,

dwm, slock, surf...

• Sent* is about simplicity. I will reuse a part of the example

file which is also the documentation of the tool.

usage:

$ sent FILE1 [FILE2 …]

▸ one slide per paragraph

▸ lines starting with # are ignored

▸ image slide: paragraph containing @FILENAME

▸ empty slide: just use a \ as a paragraph

@nyan.png

this text will not be displayed, since the @ at the start of the first line

makes this paragraph an image slide.

The previous text, saved into a file and used with sent will open

a fullscreen window containg three "slides". Each slide will resize

the text to maximize the display usage, this mean the font size will

change on each slide.

It is really easy to use. To display next slide, you have the choice

between pressing space, right arrow, return or clicking any

button. Pressing left arrow will go back.

If you want to install it on OpenBSD: pkg_add sent, the package

comes from the port misc/sent.

Be careful, Sent does not produce any file, you will need it for the

presentation!

Suckless sent website