Initializing Your Environment
This step is entirely optional as the Seaplane tool will auto-initialize for you when possible. However, since we're still learning, let's go ahead and do it manually to illustrate a few key configurable areas.
Here we will create all the necessary files and directories used by the Seaplane CLI. These directories are platform-specific and are only located within your home folder. We don't touch system files or directories!
We can initialize everything with a single command:
$ seaplane init
Successfully created Seaplane directories
If you're curious which exact files and directories were created, you can add
the --verbose flag. If you've already initialized, you can safely re-run with
the --verbose flag just to check. We won't overwrite anything unless you tell
us to.
For example, on a Mac, the output looks like this:
$ seaplane init --verbose
Looking for configuration file at "/Users/kevin/Library/Application Support/io.Seaplane.seaplane/seaplane.toml"
Found configuration file "/Users/kevin/Library/Application Support/io.Seaplane.seaplane/seaplane.toml"
Looking for configuration file at "/Users/kevin/.config/seaplane/seaplane.toml"
Looking for configuration file at "/Users/kevin/.seaplane/seaplane.toml"
Creating directory "/Users/kevin/Library/Application Support/io.Seaplane.seaplane"
Creating directory "/Users/kevin/Library/Application Support/io.Seaplane.seaplane"
warn: "/Users/kevin/Library/Application Support/io.Seaplane.seaplane/seaplane.toml" already exists
(hint: use 'seaplane init --overwrite=config to erase and overwrite it)
warn: "/Users/kevin/Library/Application Support/io.Seaplane.seaplane/formations.json" already exists
(hint: use 'seaplane init --overwrite=formations to erase and overwrite it)
warn: "/Users/kevin/Library/Application Support/io.Seaplane.seaplane/flights.json" already exists
(hint: use 'seaplane init --overwrite=flights to erase and overwrite it)
Successfully created Seaplane directories
If you're following along live (because the above text doesn't do it justice!) you probably noticed that last command added some color to the output.
We believe that a tasteful coloring of words helps draw attention to important parts of the output, which is especially critical for errors and hints.
However, we know that everyone is different and we do our best to be respectful of each individual's preferences. There are multiple ways to disable output coloring. We'll cover three of them here:
Setting NO_COLOR
If you have the NO_COLOR environment variable set, your output will not
contain color. In fact, if you already had that variable set, the previous
message may not have been colored at all!
This cannot be overridden by --color flags.
Using --no-color or setting --color=never
These can be set as a shell alias, or if you only want to remove color from one particular invocation.
Setting an alias also allows you to override this choice on certain invocations.
For example, if you normally don't want any color, but then later decide for a
particular invocation you do, you can simply pass --color=always which will
override your alias.
Setting color = "never" in the configuration file
Another method turning off color in output for all invocations is by
settingcolor = "never" in your configuration file. The configuration file is
called seaplane.toml and uses the [TOML] language. Its location is platform
dependent, which you can find by looking at the output of the seaplane init
--verbose. In our above example, it's located here:
~/Library/ApplicationSupport/io.Seaplane.seaplane/seaplane.toml
If we add color = "never" under the [seaplane] table, our output will no
longer contain any color.
For more options see the Seaplane Configuration Specification