Naughty Keyboardnkb show
Print one pack in full, every value with what it breaks and what a correct application does.
nkb show <pack>
What does it print?
The pack’s name, its description, its version and licence, and then every value in the order a tester meets them. Values are printed escaped, which is the only readable form for a value made of characters nobody can see: a trailing space is \u0020 and not a blank at the end of a line.
$ nkb show whitespace
whitespace - Whitespace
Characters that take up space, or claim to, and are impossible to see in a form.
version 1.0, updated 2026-09-07, CC-BY-4.0, fields: any
trailing-space
Trailing space
value Kowalski\u0020
size 9 code points, 9 bytes
breaks Login and e-mail comparisons differ between browser and server; the account is created but cannot be found.
expect Trimmed everywhere or preserved everywhere - never one on sign-up and the other on sign-in.
A value too long to write out, such as 65,535 characters, is kept in the pack as a recipe, and show prints the recipe rather than the value. To get the value itself, use nkb emit.
Options
Exit codes
This command's help names no exit codes of its own. The numbers mean the same for every command: Exit codes
The help, as the program prints it
What nkb show --help prints, from nkb 0.1.0.
nkb show - print one pack in full Usage: nkb show <pack> Values are printed ESCAPED, which is the only readable form for a value made of characters nobody can see. A generated value is printed as its recipe and is never expanded here. Options: -h, --help Show this help and exit with 0