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akkartik on Oct 10, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Rat: Compose shell commands to build interactive t...

I'm trying the example from the Readme, but running:

  $ rat --mode files --cmd 'ls -al'

..doesn't actually seem to be reading my .ratrc file. The command behaves the same whether I have a .ratrc or not. Is anybody else able to hit enter to preview a file? I'm on a Mac.

lambda_tango on Oct 10, 2017 [–]

Also on a Mac. File preview works when .ratrc is present, otherwise just a file list and selector. Are you sure it's at ~/.config/rat/.ratrc ?

vthriller on Oct 11, 2017 | | [–]

If it is in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME, why name the file with a leading dot? To me, that's a bit confusing.

akkartik on Oct 11, 2017 | | | [–]

I fixed it last night: https://github.com/ericfreese/rat/commit/73e4b90465

akkartik on Oct 10, 2017 | | [–]

Ah, that was my mistake. Thanks!

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