suggestion for renaming commands via cfg file

[PedroLopes]

dear @ginatrapani , your tool is amazing and I use it everyday. I've done a few mods, check if this one is interesting for you (take it as a suggestion, there are many ways to achieve this): this allows to rename commands via the config file, rather than having the user changing the code. Given that some of my friends use your script and are not programmers I made this for them to be able to change it easily.

anyway, ignore if not interesting, and thanks again for a wonderful tool!

[karbassi]

@inkarkat @evanp Could this be done via an addon?

[inkarkat]

You can easily add aliases for existing commands (or third-party add-ons) via a small wrapper add-on, like my lspri alias here (which forwards to the built-in listpri / lsp command).

This is a separate file with 3 lines of code vs. a single-line configuration, but I would still prefer this because:

• The original commands (that many add-ons rely on) are still available. With the proposed approach, add-ons would have to be adapted to use the introduced variables, too.
• You can similarly wrap add-ons (cp. here), whereas the proposed approach does not handle this (as add-ons are looked up by script name, and todo.sh cannot know the used add-ons in advance).
• The proposed approach would make some sense for a complete renaming of all actions, e.g. as part of a localization; however, for that it's incomplete (messages and errors are still English-only), and the add-on compatibility (see above) would not be addressed.
• The existing configuration code already is long and messy; I'm not sure we want to complicate this further for a feature with little benefit and where alternatives exist.
• The patch is incomplete because it does not adapt todo_completion.

[karbassi]

Closing this for now.

If anyone wants to comment on a more feature-complete idea, we're open to it! 😄