Export configuration after tide configure

[FelipeEmos]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe

I want to automate my tide configure process by being able to save my configuration.

I came across this because it was somewhat hard to manage my dotfiles with tide and the barrier of understanding all the docs about the various ways to configure it is not something I want to do right now, I'd much rather stick with my initial configuration after running tide configure and just incrementally change what I want.

Describe the solution you'd like

I already implemented what I want. At the final step of tide configure it looks something like this:

I'd like your opinion on this feature and on how I achieved it.
If you also find value in this feature please mark this Issue with an emoji or something nice I guess?
I'll happily open a PR if the community finds this valueable!

My Solution

I changed the finish.fish file to have an additional option

# FIXME: Is this path a good path for non UNIX users?
set -g tide_config_export_location /tmp/last-tide-config.fish

function finish:
        set_color red
    _tide_title 'Overwrite tide config?'
    set_color normal

    _tide_option y Yes
    echo

    # This is NEW
    _tide_option e "Export this configuration to '$tide_config_export_location'"
    echo

    _tide_menu
    switch $_tide_selected_option
        case y
            _tide_finish
            command -q clear && clear

        # This is NEW
        case e
            _tide_export_config
            command -q clear && clear
            echo "Configuration exported to '$tide_config_export_location'"
    end
end

Then I created this _tide_export_config function that exports exactly the content of _tide_finish into this file at $tide_config_export_location

function _tide_export_config
    set -e _tide_selected_option # Skip through all the _next_choices

    # Deal with prompt char/vi mode
    contains character $fake_tide_left_prompt_items || set -p fake_tide_left_prompt_items vi_mode

    for fakeVar in (set --names | string match -r "^fake_tide.*")
        set finalVarName (string replace 'fake_' '' $fakeVar)
        set finalVarValue (eval echo \$$fakeVar)

        if test "$finalVarValue" = " "
            echo "set -U $finalVarName ' '" >> $tide_config_export_location
        else if test -z "$finalVarValue"
            echo "set -U $finalVarName ''" >> $tide_config_export_location
        else
            echo "set -U $finalVarName $finalVarValue" >> $tide_config_export_location
        end
    end
end

Result

The content of the exported file is very nice 🙂 :

[IlanCosman]

A similar thing was implemented in Tide v6. Thanks for your effort though :)

[FelipeEmos]

hahahhaha

Ok, I should have tried to update it before going hacker mode 😅
I say thank you man! Great project, I love it!