NAME¶

rover - text-based light-weight frontend for update-alternatives

SYNOPSYS¶

rover [-h] [-e|--expression EXPRESSION] [-v|--version]

DESCRIPTION¶

Rover is a text-based light-weight frontend for update-alternatives, which is inspired by the ranger file browser. Compared to existing graphical frontends such as galternatives and kalternatives, Rover still has the following advantages:

1. User doesn't need to move hand off the keyboard.

2. Zero GUI overhead, and not bound to graphical environment.

3. Supports searching by substring or Python regex.

KEYBINDING¶

j,↓

[↓] move down

k,↑

[↑] move up

h,←

[←] move left

l,→

[→] move right

SPACE,ENTER

[*] select

/,?

[?] search

q,ESC

[X] quit

SEARCHING¶

You can search by the name of an alternative, the mode, or the actual path of a candidate at left pane.

LICENSE¶

Mo Zhou <lumin@debian.org>, GPL-3.0+