This content originally appeared on DEV Community and was authored by Alexey Melezhik
Oh My Zsh is quite poplar ecosystem allows people to run useful scenarios to customize their terminals as well to deal with typical tasks.
A couple years ago I created the Tomtit and since then this has been bothering me - how similar it is to what ohmyzsh does ...
Well, not exactly, but it's written on Raku.
Brief comparison with ohmyzsh
Tomit allows to write portable scripts and execute them to satisfy users' needs. The same what ohmyzsh plugins do
Unlike ohmyzsh plugins which are written on Zshell, Tomtit plugins could be written on similar Bash or many other languages supported by Sparrow ( on which the Tomtit is built on )
Unlike ohmyzsh scenarios, Tomtit scenarios get run as Raku scripts and thus are highly customizable. In ohmyzsh you only have shell aliases or functions
Ohmyzh has 275+ plugins which is a little bit more then Sparrow has - 216 plugins, however the difference is not that big, considering that the only Sparrow maintainer is me :-).
Brief example
Every time I work with git I need this helpers that easy my work. With Tomtit I'd do this:
tom --profile git
output:
install git@commit ...
install git@git-branch-delete ...
install git@git-publish ...
install git@git-summary ...
install git@pull ...
install git@push ...
install git@set-git ...
install git@status ...
install git@update-branch-list ...
And then set-up my git config for this project:
tom --edit set-git
#!raku
task-run "set git", "git-base", %(
email => 'melezhik@email.com',
name => 'Alexey Melezhik',
config_scope => 'local',
set_credential_cache => 'on'
);
And apply it:
tom set-git
output:
[repository] :: index updated from file:///root/repo/api/v1/index
[set git] :: git credential.helper cache --timeout=3000000
[set git] :: git user.email melezhik@email.com
[set git] :: git user.name Alexey Melezhik
[task check] stdout match <git user.email melezhik@email.com> True
[task check] stdout match <git user.name Alexey Melezhik> True
That is it!
Now I only need to commit my configuration into git:
echo ".cache" >> .gitignore
git add .tom
git commit -a -m "my tomtit helpers for git"
git push
Tomtit profiles
Tomtit profiles are predefined user scripts grouped by categories:
tom --profile
output:
ado
azure
git
gitlab
hello
perl
raku
ruby
yaml
When you install a profile you install all scripts into .tom directory. For example, as we did for git:
tom --profile --list git
output:
[profile scenarios]
git@commit installed: True
git@git-branch-delete installed: True
git@git-publish installed: True
git@git-summary installed: True
git@pull installed: True
git@push installed: True
git@set-git installed: True
git@status installed: True
git@update-branch-list installed: True
We've ended up having several git-* scripts in .tom directory.
Profile scripts are just Raku scripts invoking one or more Sparrow plugins. That's it. Tomtit would generate some reasonable stubs for .tom/ Raku scripts but you are always free to edit the ones.
For example as we did for set-git:
tom --edit set-git
It allows you to generate some boilerplate code but then modify it upon your needs.
Conclusion
Tomtit and Sparrow could be a reasonable alternative to ohmyzsh with pros mentioned above. Of course, some things like exporting shell aliases won't work with in Tomtit ( but there is workaround for that), however other command line tasks could be executed via Tomtit in very efficient way.
I am looking for new (Raku?) contributors for the project.
And thank you for reading.
Alexey.
This content originally appeared on DEV Community and was authored by Alexey Melezhik
Alexey Melezhik | Sciencx (2021-08-18T22:19:52+00:00) Oh my Tomtit – alternative to oh my zsh written on Raku. Retrieved from https://www.scien.cx/2021/08/18/oh-my-tomtit-alternative-to-oh-my-zsh-written-on-raku/
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