dt-cli

Templating

dt-cli allows its source files to be templates, the templates are rendered with values defined in dt-cli's config file. Here is a simple example that parameterizes several GUI-related properties, and render a template to its destination with dt-cli.

NOTE

Only templating a single file shows little benefit. This is just a toy example that demonstrates the basic usage of templating. In real-world uses, the sources array can include more template files, so that templating can actually ease config file management.

Setting Values

In dt-cli's config file, add another section with name [context]. Here is where the values are set. We will define the following values:





 
 
 


 






# Contents of ~/.config/dt/cli.toml
[global]
...

[context]
gui.font-size = 15
gui.cursor-size = 24

[[local]]
name = "gui"
basedir = "~/dt/gui"
sources = [
  "gtk-3.0/settings.ini",
]
target = "~/.config"

In this config example, we have two values under the context.gui section.

INFO

These two values will only be rendered for templates in a group named gui.

Writing templates

Templates are understood by dt-cli with the Handlebars syntax. We can template the gtk settings file in the gui group (se above) as:

# Contents of ~/dt/gui/gtk-3.0/settings.ini
[Settings]
gtk-cursor-theme-size={{{ gui.cursor-size }}}
gtk-font-name=system-ui {{{ gui.font-size }}}

After this, running dt-cli and ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini will have our templated values:

# Contents of ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini
[Settings]
gtk-cursor-theme-size=24
gtk-font-name=system-ui 15