rco: rusty configurer

A niche tool for managing configuration files, specifically geared towards minimal linux installations. It lets you give your configuration files a nickname, then quickly edit them by running:

rco nickname

I mainly made this to learn rust, although it is genuinely useful, atleast to me.

This is a (better) remake of my project comma which is writen in C.

Installation

AUR

If you are on Arch Linux, rco can be installed via the AUR package rco

Also, the PKGBUILD for this project is located at pkg/arch/PKGBUILD

Build from source with cargo

Prerequisites

• cargo, rust's package manager and frontend to the compiler

To install:

$ cargo install --git https://github.com/tteeoo/rco

You may need to add ~/.cargo/bin/ to your PATH variable in your shell's rc file; this is so you can run rco in your shell without specifying the binary's filepath.

To uninstall rco when installed by building from source (not via AUR) run the scripts/uninstall.sh script.

Usage

As already mentioned, you can quickly edit your files by running:

rco nickname

Edit as root with:

rco -s nickname

You can load configuration files for editing like this:

rco -l nickname /path/to/file "brief description"

In turn, you can unload, and stop tracking them, like this:

rco -u nickname

You can also list all your tracked configuration files by running without cany arguments:

rco

Configuration

rco's configuration file is located at ~/.config/rco/config.csv

The default file can be located in the repo at defaults/config.csv

This is where you can change:

• The editor files are opened in

• Wether or not files are list in alternating colors

• The shell your editor is opened with; this will not need to be changed unless you do not have sh at /bin/sh for some reason

Roadmap

Future features include:

• Custom object file location
• Exporting files to a central directory
• Importing files from a git repository, and copying them into your system

See the projects tab at the top for a more verbose view of what is being worked on.

Project layout

Directories

• src/: all of the source code
• defaults/: where the default config and object files are, as well as a non-markdown README
• scripts/: various useful scripts
• pkg/: package files for different distros

Branches

• master: the latest stable release
• testing: for development use only. master will be merged with this once a release is ready

License

All files are licensced under the MIT License

This can be found in the repo at LICENSE-MIT

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https://github.com/tteeoo/rco