---
name: "rolo"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "rolo"
version: "020-1"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/rolo"
---

# rolo(1)

text-based contact management software

## NAME

**rolo** – text-based contact management software

## SYNOPSIS

**rolo** \[**-r**\] \[**-f** *datafile*\]

**rolo** \[**-v**\]

**rolo** \[**-V**\]

## DESCRIPTION

Rolo keeps track of your contacts and display them to you with a text-based menu. Rolo strives to be a well-constructed tool for complimenting text-based email programs-such as mutt. It utilizes the vCard version 3.0 format for storing its contacts and it interfaces with the end-user through a NCurses front-end.

The options are as follows:

- \-r

  Open the data file in read-only mode. This essentially disables adding, editing, and deleting contacts.

- \-f

  Use the specified file as the data file.

- \-v

  Display the version.

- \-V

  Display the copyright and license.

## ENVIRONMENT

- ROLO\_EDITOR

  If ROLO\_EDITOR is set, its value is used as the name of the program to invoke when displaying contact entries in advanced edit. If ROLO\_EDITOR is not set, then EDITOR is used. If EDITOR is also not set, the default value of /usr/bin/editor is used.

## FILES

- *~/.rolo/contacts.vcf*

  Default data file that rolo reads upon startup.

## SEE ALSO

[vi(1)](/vi/1.md)

## AUTHORS

Andrew Hsu ⟨ahsu@users.sf.net⟩

## BUGS

The read-only option does not work. The configuration file is not used.