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| ROVER(1) | text frontend for update-alternatives | ROVER(1) |
NAME¶
rover - text-based light-weight frontend for update-alternativesSYNOPSYS¶
rover [-h] [-e|--expression EXPRESSION] [-v|--version]DESCRIPTION¶
Rover is a text-based light-weight frontend for update-alternatives, which is inspired by the ranger file browser. Compared to existing graphical frontends such as galternatives and kalternatives, Rover still has the following advantages:1. User doesn't need to move hand off the keyboard.
2. Zero GUI overhead, and not bound to graphical environment.
3. Supports searching by substring or Python regex.
KEYBINDING¶
- C^n, n, z
- move down cursor in left select box
- C^p, p, w
- move up cursor in left select box
- j, arrow-down
- move down cursor in right select box
- k, arrow-up
- move up cursor in the right select box
- SPACE, ENTER
- set alternative
- l, /
- filter left list using substring (case-insensitive) or regex
- ESC, q
- quit
SEARCHING¶
You can search by the name of an alternative, the mode, or the actual path of a candidate at left pane.LICENSE¶
Mo Zhou <lumin@debian.org>, GPL-3.0+| 2018-12-17 | 0.3.3 |