tigrc(5) Manual Page

You can permanently set an option by putting it in the ~/.tigrc file. The file consists of a series of commands. Each line of the file may contain only one command.

The hash mark (#) is used as a comment character. All text after the comment character to the end of the line is ignored. You can use comments to annotate your initialization file.

A few selective variables can be configured via the set command. The syntax is:

Examples:

        set show-rev-graph = yes        # Show revision graph?
        set line-number-interval = 5    # Interval between line numbers
        set tab-size = 8                # Number of spaces pr tab
        set encoding = "UTF-8"          # Commit encoding

The type of variables are either bool, int, and string.

Valid bool values

To set a bool variable to true use either "1", "true", or "yes". Any other value will set the variable to false.

Valid int values

A non-negative integer.

Valid string values

A string of characters. Optionally, use either ' or " as delimiters.

Variables

The following variables can be set:

show-rev-graph (bool)

Show revision graph in the main view on start-up. Can be toggled with g.

line-number-interval (int)

Interval between line numbers. Note, you have to toggle on line numbering with n or the -n command line option. The default is to number every line.

tab-size (int)

Number of spaces per tab. The default is 8 spaces.

commit-encoding (string)

The encoding used for commits. The default is UTF-8. Not this option is shadowed by the "i18n.commitencoding" option in .git/config.

Using bind commands keys can be mapped to an action when pressed in a given key map. The syntax is:

Examples:

        # A few keybindings
        bind main w scroll-line-up
        bind main s scroll-line-down
        bind main space enter
        bind diff a previous
        bind diff d next
        bind diff b move-first-line
        # 'unbind' the default quit key binding
        bind main Q none

Keys are mapped by first searching the keybindings for the current view, then the keybindings for the generic keymap, and last the default keybindings. Thus, the view keybindings shadow the generic keybindings which Shadow the built-in keybindings.

Keymaps

Valid keymaps are: main, diff, log, help, pager, and generic. Use generic to set key mapping in all keymaps.

Key values

Key values should never be quoted. Use either the ASCII value or one of the following symbolic key names. Symbolic key names are case insensitive, Use Hash to bind to the # key, since the hash mark is used as a comment character.

Enter, Space, Backspace, Tab, Escape, Left, Right, Up, Down, Insert, Delete, Hash, Home, End, PageUp, PageDown, F1, F2, F3, F4, F5, F6, F7, F8, F9, F10, F11, F12.

Action names

Valid action names are described below. Note, all names are case-insensitive, and you may use -, _, and . interchangeably, e.g. "view-main", "View.Main", and "VIEW_MAIN" are the same.

Actions

Color commands control highlighting and the user interface styles. If your terminal supports color, these commands can be used to assign foreground and background combinations to certain areas. Optionally, an attribute can be given as the last parameter. The syntax is:

Examples:

        # Diff colors
        color diff-header       yellow  default
        color diff-index        blue    default
        color diff-chunk        magenta default
        # A strange looking cursor line
        color cursor            red     default underline
        # UI colors
        color title-blur        white   blue
        color title-focus       white   blue    bold

Area names

Valid area names are described below. Note, all names are case-insensitive, and you may use -, _, and . interchangeably, e.g. "Diff-Header", "DIFF_HEADER", and "diff.header" are the same.

Color names

Valid colors include: white, black, green, magenta, blue, cyan, yellow, red, default. Use default to refer to the default terminal colors.

Attribute names

Valid attributes include: normal, blink, bold, dim, reverse, standout, and underline. Note, not all attributes may be supported by the terminal.

UI colors

Status window colors

Appearance of the bottom window showing info messages.

status

Title window colors

Appearance of the title windows when they are attached to any backgrounded windows and the current window.

title-blur, title-focus

Cursor line colors

cursor

Main view specific

Appearance of the various columns in the main view, including the ~ used for delimiting long author names and labels for tag and branch references.

main-date, main-author, main-commit, main-delim, main-tag, main-ref

Highlighting

The colors and attributes for text that is not highlighted can be controlled by changing the default color option.

Diff markup

Options concerning diff start, chunks and lines added and deleted.

diff-header, diff-chunk, diff-add, diff-del

Enhanced git diff markup

Extra diff information emitted by the git diff machinery, such as mode changes, rename detection, and similarity.

diff-oldmode, diff-newmode, diff-copy-from, diff-copy-to, diff-rename-from, diff-rename-to, diff-similarity diff-dissimilarity diff-tree, diff-index

Pretty print commit headers

Commit diffs and the revision logs are usually formatted using pretty printed headers , unless --pretty=raw was given. This includes lines, such as merge info, commit ID, and author and committer date.

pp-author, pp-commit, pp-merge, pp-date, pp-adate, pp-cdate

Raw commit header

Usually shown when --pretty=raw is given, however commit is pretty much omnipresent.

commit, parent, tree, author, committer

Commit message

For now only Signed-off-by and Acked-by lines are colorized.

signoff, acked

Copyright (c) 2006 Jonas Fonseca <fonseca@diku.dk>

Licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License.

tig(1) and the tig manual.