quite-intriguing

Find the right manpage or cheatsheet, easily.

If the above is too small, you can see it on terminalizer

Contents

1. About
2. License
3. Prerequisites
4. Installation
5. Setup
6. Usage
7. TODO

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1. About

quite-intriguing (or qi) uses fzf to be able to search not only manpages but your cheatsheets from tldr or cheat as well. It also supplements the listings from the cheatsheets if there is a description in the manpages.

Its name and icon are meant to be an homage to the longrunning UK panel show "Quite Interesting" where you get to find out all sorts of interesting things; there is no connection express or implied between these files and that television program.

Except that it's good. Watch it.

2. License

This project is licensed under the MIT License. For the full license, see LICENSE.

3. Prerequisites

• fzf
• awk, sed, apropos, grep
• tldr
• cheat
• rofi (OPTIONAL)

4. Installation

Put quite-intriguing and quite-intriguing-preview in the same directory where your shell can find them. I created a symlink to the quite-intriguing file called just qi, or you can use an alias.

5. Setup

It's recommended to run quite-intriguing -p before doing anything, and to re-run this command either as part of a cronjob or as a hook after installing a program via your package manager. This allows the program to create its own little reference in ~/.config/qi_cachefile. It not only reads in all the available entries from man, but also tldr and cheat. As the latter two do not have descriptions as part of their UI, qi will match any filenames and enrich the descriptions.

6. Usage

quite-intriguing [OPTIONS] [SEARCHTERM]

Omitting the search term is quite okay; including it just starts the search faster. Including a query assumes TUI mode (the default).

The preview in TUI mode is provided by fzf. You can scroll in the preview window using either the mouse or fzf's default binds of shift-up and shift-down. If you wish to edit these bindings, you'll have to edit my script with the guidance from here.

The various switches are:

• -h show help
• -p Prefetch and compile options, then exit
• -r Rebuild available options (like -p) but then run
• -g GUI interface only. Default is CLI/TUI. This uses rofi instead of fzf.

The gui display of results is a bit wonky for some reason and I can't figure out how to make it scroll properly. :/ If you know what I'm missing, I'd appreciate it.

7. TODO

• Fix GUI display of results
• Incorporate the previewer into the main script
• Figure out if there's a way to put short descriptions in cheatsheets