Recursive custom-dir

Hi,

I would like to classify my md files in directories like:

~/eg
~/eg/glossary
~/eg/tech

and in my config file, just having something like:

custom-dir=~/eg

Actually, when a md file is in a subdirectory, it is not found. Is there a way to change that ?

Thanks.

[srsudar]

Hmm that is a good idea. I don’t think there’s any way to do that currently… I need to revisit how we resolve paths.

If there isn’t a config file fix I will add it.

Your preferred way for it to work would be to just detect .md files anywhere in the directory tree?

A few complicating cases occur to me that I’ll need to think through. Currently if you have ~/eg/find.md, running eg find will show the contents of your custom file before the contents of the find file that ships with eg. If multiple files with the same name are defined in your custom directory, eg something like:

~/eg/personal-machine/ssh.md
~/eg/work-machine/ssh.md

what behavior would you expect? Showing contents of both files and then the default ssh examples?

[srsudar]

Great. I have at least one more edge case to fix, at which point I will create a PR, merge, and close. I try to do releases on the 5th of each month, so I’ll ship a new version around April 5th.

This was a great idea, thanks for the suggestion. Some tools and combinations of flags I want to use only at work, and I hadn’t found a good way to put them in eg without running the risk of leaking them in my dotfiles repo. Nested directories is a great workaround.

For this reason I decided to show all files if you have more than one. So if you have:

~/eg/personal-machine/find.md
~/eg/work-machine/find.md

eg find will concatenate all three together, showing first the one in personal-machine/, then the one in work-machine/, and then the default examples that ship with eg.