# Themes and Templates

This folder contains sample templates to customize madonctl output.

Feel free to contribute if you have nice templates or if you want to work on themes as well!

## Configuration

The template prefix directory can be set in the configuration file with the

'template_directory' setting, or with the `MADONCTL_TEMPLATE_DIRECTORY`

environment variable.\

If set, template files are looked up relatively from this repository first

(unless they are absolute paths or start with "./" or "../").

The themes are located in the `themes` directory, inside the base template

directory (e.g. `$template_directory/themes/ansi/`).

A theme is a collection of templates grouped in a theme directory (the name of

the directory is the name of the theme).

## Themes

To use a theme, simply specify the theme name with the --theme flag (the

--output=theme flag is implied):

    madonctl timeline --limit=2 --theme=ansi

    madonctl accounts statuses --limit 5 --theme ansi

    madonctl --theme=ansi accounts notifications --list

    madonctl --theme=ansi stream

Currently, if a template is missing, madonctl will fall back to the _plain_

output format.  (In the future it might just fail with an error message.)

You can set up madonctl so that a theme is used by default.  See the

[configuration](../configuration.md) page for details.

## Templates

Here's an example using a template with ANSI color escape codes (for UNIX/Linux):

    madonctl timeline --limit 2 --template-file ansi-status.tmpl

### Template development

Here's a list of available commands (please check the Go template documentation

for the built-in functions):

Function | Description

-------- | -----------

`fromunix UNIXTIMESTAMP`  | converts from UNIX timestamp to date

`tolocal TEXTRFC3339DATE` | converts a RFC3339 date string to a local time

`fromhtml HTMLTEXT`       | converts HTML to plain text

`wrap TEXT`       | rewrap text, with indent and max width

`trim TEXT`       | trims text whitespace

`color COLORSPEC` | sends an ANSI color code sequence

*COLORSPEC* is a string with the following format: `[FGCOLOR][,BGCOLOR[,STYLE]]`

or `reset`.

Examples:

```

  {{color "red"}}red text{{color "reset"}}

  {{color ",red"}}red background{{color "reset"}}

  {{color "white,,bold"}}bright white text{{color "reset"}}

  Message: {{color "blue"}}{{.content | fromhtml | wrap "    " 80 | trim}}{{color "reset"}}

```