alacritty-config
A simple Python script to simplify configuring my alacritty.
Installation
You can install alacritty-config by cloning this repository and running make install. By default, it will be installed in /usr/local/bin, but you can set a
different INSTALL_DIR if you like.
Uninstall it using make uninstall.
Usage
alacritty-config has three different modes: show, add, and delete.
Calling the program without any arguments will dump your entire config: you’re in show
mode, but you haven’t selected anything. If you want to know the value of the tabspaces
property, call alacritty-config with just that argument. If you want to know the action
of your third key binding, call it with key_bindings.2.action—we’re 0-indexed.
$ alacritty-config
<your entire config>
$ alacritty-config tabspaces
8 # or whatever you set it to
$ alacritty-config key_bindings.2.action
Paste # or whatever you set it to
If you want to delete a property, simply add delete.
$ alacritty-config tabspaces delete
# Poof! It’s gone!
If you want to add or edit a property, simply add a different YAML-parseable property.
If you want to set something to delete, simply quote it.
$ alacritty-config tabspaces 4
# Set tabspaces to 4
$ alacritty-config tabspaces '"delete"'
# Set tabspaces to "delete", which won’t work
TODO
Oh, so much! Ideally, I’d like a GUI at least for all the colorful properties and for selecting fonts. For now the tool is simple and usable enough to be useful, but a simple GUI would definitely give this a better UX. Another time.
Have fun!