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diff --git a/docs/getting_started_command_line.rst b/docs/getting_started_command_line.rst deleted file mode 100644 index d2e4378..0000000 --- a/docs/getting_started_command_line.rst +++ /dev/null @@ -1,61 +0,0 @@ -Getting Started (Command Line) -============================== - -lesana can be used from the command line through the ``lesana`` command; -for more details run ``lesana help``. - -Many commands will try to open some file in an editor: they will attempt -to use, in this order, ``$EDITOR``, ``sensible-editor`` or as a fallback -``vi``, which should be installed on any POSIX-like system. - -To start a new collection, create a directory and run ``lesana -init`` into it:: - - mkdir $DIRECTORY - cd $DIRECTORY - lesana init - -It will create the basic file structure of a lesana collection, -including a ``settings.yaml`` skeleton and it will initialize a git -repository (use ``--no-git`` to skip this part and ignore all further -git commands). - -It will then open ``settings.yaml`` in an editor: fill in your list of -fields and all other data, save and exit. -You are now ready to commit the configuration for your new collection:: - - git commit -m 'Collection settings' - -An empty collection is not very interesting: let us start adding new -entries:: - - lesana new - -It will again open an editor on a skeleton of entry where you can fill -in the values. When you close the editor it will print the entry id, -that you can use e.g. to edit again the same entry:: - - lesana edit $ENTRY_ID - -After you've added a few entries, you can now search for some word that -you entered in one of the indexed fields:: - - lesana search some words - -this will also print the entry ids of matching items, so that you can -open them with ``lesana edit``. - -If you're using git, entries will be autoadded to the staging area, but -you need to commit them, so that you can choose how often you do so. - -Search results are limited by default to 12 matches; to get all results -for your query you can use the option ``--all``. This is especially -useful when passing the results to a template:: - - lesana search --template templates/my_report.html --all \ - some search terms \ - > some_search_terms-report.html - -will generate an html file based on the jinja2 template -``templates/my_report.html`` with all the entries found for those search -terms. |