General

Details

• Arch: x86_64
• Size: 900K
• Vers: v02.01.01

Weblinks

• Bat: https://github.com/sharkdp/bat
• Highlight: http://www.andre-simon.de/doku/highlight/highlight.html
• Nano: https://www.nano-editor.org

Description

This is a curses based program designed to make managing helpfiles and cheatsheets related to different programs easier. Its also essentially just a wrapper for highlight and bat which are being used to read the files. To do something with max efficiency, all the useful and important data relative to doing the thing can be gathered and studied. When gathering information on complex programs it helps to have some easy way of organizing it, which is what Dummy aims to provide.

Installation

Depends

• bat: Cat clone with syntax highlighting and git integration
• highlight: Fast and flexible CLI source code highlighter
• make: GNU utility to maintain groups of programs
• nano: Pico editor clone with enhancements

MacOS & Linux

Open a terminal, go to the user data directory and clone this repo:

cd "$HOME/.local/share" &&
git clone 'https://github.com/c0rNCh1p/dummy.git' ||
git clone 'https://gitlab.com/c0rNCh1p/dummy.git'

Change to the build directory and install the program with the script:

cd 'Dummy' && ./'install.sh'

Binaries are placed in "$HOME/.local/bin" and '/bin', then the program folder is copied to '/usr/share'.

Windows

Go grab git bash if not installed 'https://git-scm.com/download/win'. Open Git Bash and follow steps for MacOS and Linux.

Uninstalling

Change to the system install directory and uninstall the program with make:

cd '/usr/share/Dummy' && make clean

Usage

dummy

Writing Dummy Files

An example dummy file is included to provide an idea of the suggested formatting for dummy files. The 'lang.lua' and 'theme.lua' files are read by highlight and allow for the customization of things like header keywords, recognized syntax and color schemes.

Adding Dummy Files

Dummy files get sorted into one of ten categories which each have their own folder in the 'dummyfiles' directory. Theyre just text files that are going to be referenced later on after the program is properly updated by being installed with the new input.

Each section has its own '.c' source file which makes the process of referencing dummy files cleaner and easier. When a file is added, the section source file, another source file containing the full list as well as the readme are each updated with a new entry.

To update the database, press 'F10' while the main menu section to be updated is focused. This will open the files which need to be updated as root with nano for the program and for that section, returning to the main menu when nano is closed.

For the changes to take effect, the 'install.sh' script needs to be executed again, but it will be the one in the system data directory '/usr/share/Dummy/install.sh' rather than the one used before to install the program to the system in the user data directory:

cd '/usr/share/Dummy' && ./'install.sh'

The same process is followed when any changes are made to the system source code. Dummy files are given the '.txt' extension when named but it can be omitted when updating the arrays. The '.txt' extension as well as the 'dummyfiles/' section of the path are being handled from within the main source file.

Notes

No Terminal Resize

The program will crash if the terminal is resized at any point during runtime. Some alternative dimensions are supported by curses but they need to be set beforehand. Files that are only around 50 lines wont open at terminal sizes smaller than the default.