# tlrc
A [tldr](https://tldr.sh) client written in Rust.
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Installation
Arch Linux
Install tlrc (from source) or tlrc-bin (prebuilt) from the AUR.
From crates.io
To build tlrc from a source tarball, run:
cargo install tlrc
NOTE: shell completion files and the man page will not be installed that way.
From GitHub Releases
You can find prebuilt binaries here.
Usage
See man tldr or the online manpage. For a brief description, you can also run:
tldr --help
Configuration
Tlrc can be customized with a TOML configuration file. To get the default path for your system, run:
tldr --config-path
To generate a default config file, run:
bash
tldr --gen-config > $(tldr --config-path)
or copy the below example.
Configuration options
```toml
[cache]
Override the cache directory.
dir = "/path/to/cache"
Automatically update the cache when it is if it is older than max_age hours.
autoupdate = true
maxage = 336
Specify a list of desired page languages. If it is empty, languages specified in
the LANG and LANGUAGE environment variables are downloaded.
English is implied and will always be downloaded.
You can see a list of language codes here: https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr
Example: ["de", "pl"]
languages = []
[output]
Show the command name in the page.
show_title = true
Prefix descriptions of examples with hyphens.
show_hyphens = false
Strip empty lines from output.
compact = false
Print pages in raw markdown.
raw_markdown = false
Number of spaces to put before each line of the page.
[indent]
Command name.
title = 2
Command description.
description = 2
Descriptions of examples.
bullet = 2
Example command invocations.
example = 4
Style for the title of the page (command name).
[style.title]
Fixed colors: "black", "red", "green", "yellow", "blue", "magenta", "cyan", "white", "default"
256color ANSI code: { color256 = 50 }
RGB: { rgb = [0, 255, 255] }
color = "magenta"
background = "default"
bold = true
underline = false
italic = false
dim = false
strikethrough = false
Style for the description of the page.
[style.description]
color = "magenta"
background = "default"
bold = false
underline = false
italic = false
dim = false
strikethrough = false
Style for descriptions of examples.
[style.bullet]
color = "green"
background = "default"
bold = false
underline = false
italic = false
dim = false
strikethrough = false
Style for command examples.
[style.example]
color = "cyan"
background = "default"
bold = false
underline = false
italic = false
dim = false
strikethrough = false
Style for URLs inside the description.
[style.url]
color = "red"
background = "default"
bold = false
underline = false
italic = true
dim = false
strikethrough = false
Style for text surrounded by backticks (`).
[style.inline_code]
color = "yellow"
background = "default"
bold = false
underline = false
italic = true
dim = false
strikethrough = false
Style for placeholders inside command examples.
[style.placeholder]
color = "red"
background = "default"
bold = false
underline = false
italic = true
dim = false
strikethrough = false
```