rodo

A minimal to-do list program for people who live on the command line.

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Table of Contents

• TL;DR
• New features
• To-dos
• Platforms
• Installing rodo
  • Requirements
  • Downloading Racket
    • To download Racket using apt
    • To download Racket using pacman
  • Downloading the rodo source code
    • To download the rodo source code
• Setup
  • Setting up a $PATH
    • To set up a $PATH
  • Adding rodo to your $PATH
    • To add rodo to your $PATH
• List of commands
• Usage examples
• Configuring rodo

TL;DR

1. Make sure Racket is installed
2. git clone https://github.com/m455/rodo into a directory of your choice
3. cd into the rodo directory
4. Choose one of the options below for running rodo.
   • To use rodo using the Racket interpreter run: racket rodo.rkt
   • To use rodo as an single-file executable follow the two steps below:
     1. Run raco exe rodo.rkt to compile the rodo into a single-file executable
     2. Run ./rodo
5. (optional) Add the following to your $PATH directory to run rodo from anywhere.

#!/usr/bin/env bash
racket ~/path/to/rodo.rkt "$@"

Note: If you made an executable, remember to change the rodo.rkt part above to rodo

Platforms

Below is a list of platforms that rodo can run on.

• Windows Subsystem for Linux
• GNU/Linux
• macOS (Untested)

Installing rodo

This section will guide you through installing rodo, so you can use it on your platform.

Requirements

This section will provide you with the requirements needed to run rodo. This section will guide you through downloading Racket and downloading the rodo source code.

• Racket 6.x
• rodo source code

Downloading Racket

Racket can be download using your machine's package manager. Depending on what package manager you use, commands may vary. See the two sections below for a list of examples using the apt and pacman package managers on the command line.

To download Racket using apt

1. run sudo apt install racket

Note: You may need to run this command as root

To download Racket using pacman

1. run pacman -Syu racket

Note: You may need to run this command as root

Downloading the rodo source code

The rodo source code is available from this repository, and can be downloaded using git.

To download the rodo source code

1. run git clone https://github.com/m455/rodo

Tip: If you want to download this into a different directory, you can specify a directory by running the command below:

git clone https://github.com/m455/rodo your-directory-name/

Setup

For convenience, rodo can be added to your $PATH. This section will guide you through setting up a $PATH and adding rodo to your $PATH.

Setting up a $PATH

A $PATH is a directory in which you can place executable files or script files. These files can then be ran from any directory on your machine.

Tip: If you have set up a $PATH already, then skip to the next step, Adding rodo to your $PATH.

To set up a $PATH

1. Create a directory for your $PATH by running mkdir ~/bin/
2. Add your newly-created ~/bin/ to your $PATH by running echo "export PATH=~/bin:\$PATH" >> .bashrc

Adding rodo to your $PATH

Adding rodo to your $PATH allows you to run rodo from any directory on your machine.

To add rodo to your $PATH

1. Create a file in your ~/bin/ directory with the following contents in it:

#!/usr/bin/env bash
racket ~/path/to/rodo.rkt "$@"

For example: If you downloaded the project to your ~/downloads/ folder you would change the line racket ~/path/to/rodo.rkt "$@" to racket ~/downloads/rodo/rodo.rkt "$@".

2. Save the file
3. Make the file executable by running chmod u+x ~/bin/name-of-your-file

Tip: Racket can make executables. You can do this by running the following command when in the same folder as the rodo.rkt file:

raco exe rodo.rkt

List of commands

This section lists and describes rodo's commands.

• -h or --help displays the help message
• init creates a file called to-do.txt in ~/.rodo/ by default
• ls displays numbered items in the to-do list
• add adds an item to the to-do list
• rm removes an item from the to-do list

Note: You may have to run rodo ls to see which number corresponds to which item when removing items.

Usage examples

The examples below assume that you have added rodo to your $PATH.

rodo -h

rodo --help

rodo init

rodo ls

rodo add "this is a task"

rodo add this is a task without quotes

rodo rm 1 (This removes the first item in your to-do list)

Note: You may have to run rodo ls to see which number corresponds to which item when removing items.

Configuring rodo

Caution: Changing the config.rkt file should be done at your own risk as it may break rodo's functionality

Right now, the configurations can be found in the config.rkt file. Settings, such as the program name, directory, and the filename of the todo list file can be changed.

New features

Now the default directory and todo list file have better default permissions:

• rodo is now licensed under AGPL3!
• ~/.rodo/ is set to 700 by default
• ~/.rodo/to-do.txt is set to 600 by default.

To-dos

When I have time, I plan on adding the following features to rodo:

• Add a purpose, context, and overview for each h1 in README.md
• A boolean color option in the config.rkt file
• Encrypt/decrypt to-do.txt file