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13.13 Colored display and debugging of influence

There are various ways to obtain detailed information about the influence computations. Colored diagrams showing influence are possible from a colored xterm or rxvt window.

There are two options controlling when to generate diagrams:

The other options control which diagrams should be generated in these situations. You have to specify at least one of the options above and at least one of the options below to generate any output.

The options below must be combined with one of the two previous ones, or the diagram will not be printed. For example to print the influence diagram, you may combine 0x08 and 0x010, and use the option -m 0x018.

Finally, there is the debug option -d 0x1 which turns on on DEBUG_INFLUENCE. This gives a message for each influence pattern that gets matched. Unfortunately, these are way too many messages making it tedious to navigate the output. However, if you discover an influence source with -m 0x80 that looks wrong, the debug output can help you to quickly find out the responsible pattern.