choose template straight from cli

[krak3n]

Hi, again.

I do not really like how -c option behaves, right now it only allows to interactively choose template, but what would be more useful, as I think, is to allow to set desired template straight from cli, for instance:

facio -n test -c mycooltemplate

facio.cfg:

[template]
mycooltemplate=/path/to/my/really/cool/template

I'd written some code about 2 months ago just for myself, but after merging with your master branch my changes are not working due to massive code base change.
So I thought this time I should file an issue.

What I think is the best way in this situation is to check if -c argument is in defined template otherwise force user to choose from interactive prompt.

Tell me what do you think?

[krak3n]

Sorry the Docs are not very clear on this.

-c Is to prompt for you to choose a template from the facio.cfg in the [template] section.

You can just pass a path to the template directly using -t or --template.

Take a look at the docs here: https://facio.readthedocs.org/en/latest/usage.html#template-options

Does this answer your question? :)

If you think this could work better or be more clear let me know.

[a-sk]

Yeah, I found this in docs, but I think we could improve this behavior. Maybe we can define base template path (it even could be an array, like $PATH) in config, and then we will be able to provide just a template name to -t option, not full path. I think it can be really convenient.

[krak3n]

Ahh I understand what you mean, yeah I am looking and changing the config to a YAML based config in #18. This would allow multiple templates to be defined something like this:

facio:
  - templates:
    - my_template: /path/to/template
    - another: [email protected]:/path/to/repo.git

I think this looks neater and is clearer and hopefully will make it easier to implement what you're after. :)

[krak3n]

So you can now do:

facio -n foo -t bar

bar being defined in ~/.facio.cfg

[a-sk]

Very nice, thanks a lot.