Modern watch command.

Viddy well, gopher. Viddy well.

• Basic features of original watch command.
  • Execute command periodically, and display the result.
  • color output.
  • diff highlight.
• Time machine mode. 😎
  • Rewind like video.
  • Go to the past, and back to the future.
• Look back history.
  • Save and load history.
• See output in pager.
• Vim like keymaps.
• Search text.
• Suspend and restart execution.
• Support shell alias
  • See detail sachaos#2 (comment)
• Customize keymappings.
• Customize color.

cargo install viddy

brew install viddy

wget -O viddy.tar.gz https://github.com/sachaos/viddy/releases/download/v1.2.1/viddy-v1.2.1-linux-x86_64.tar.gz && tar xvf viddy.tar.gz && mv viddy /usr/local/bin

Download from release page.

sudo port install viddy

To install Viddy on Windows, first install the Scoop package manager, and then run the commands below.

NOTE: The git package is required in order to add additional Scoop "buckets".

scoop install git
scoop bucket add extras
scoop install extras/viddy

yay -S viddy

Alternatively you can use the AUR Git repo directly

After enabling the community repository:

apk add viddy

asdf plugin add viddy
asdf install viddy latest
asdf global viddy latest

Viddy can be used without any configuration. However, if you want to customize the keybindings or default behavior, you can do so.

Install your config file on $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/viddy.toml On macOS, the path is ~/Library/Application\ Support/viddy.toml.

[general]
no_shell = false
shell = "zsh"
shell_options = ""
skip_empty_diffs = false

[keymap]
timemachine_go_to_past = "Down"
timemachine_go_to_more_past = "Shift-Down"
timemachine_go_to_future = "Up"
timemachine_go_to_more_future = "Shift-Up"
timemachine_go_to_now = "Ctrl-Shift-Up"
timemachine_go_to_oldest = "Ctrl-Shift-Down"
scroll_left = "h"
scroll_right = "l"
scroll_up = "k"
scroll_down = "j"
scroll_half_page_up = "Ctrl-u"
scroll_half_page_down = "Ctrl-d"
scroll_page_up = "Ctrl-b"
scroll_page_down = "Ctrl-f"
scroll_bottom_of_page = "Shift-g"
scroll_top_of_page = "g g"

[color]
background = "white" # Default value is inherit from terminal color.

"viddy" is Nadsat word meaning to see. Nadsat is fictional argot of gangs in the violent book and movie "A Clockwork Orange".

The gopher's logo of viddy is licensed under the Creative Commons 3.0 Attributions license.

The original Go gopher was designed by Renee French.