Mathematical operations in verbs

[FIREBAT-66]

Is there any utility within broot that enables mathematical operations between verbs? Perhaps, if this is n ot feasible, can we design bash scripts that implement all the background logic but still have a way to show the file changes within broot? Was just curious if this is something that is available to broot users!

[Canop]

Can you please give a few examples of the verbs you'd like ?

[FIREBAT-66]

Can you please give a few examples of the verbs you'd like ?

Thank you @Canop for entertaining my question!

So, a verb that I currently have in my verbs.hjson file appears as such:

{
    name: toggle_depth
    shortcut: td
    invocation: "toggle_depth {integer}" 
    internal: ":set_max_depth {integer}"
    leave_broot: false
}

However, if we had mathematical operations, I could create a different kind of verb that has real "toggle" features:

{
    name: toggle_depth
    shortcut: td
    invocation: "toggle_depth" 
    internal: "(-1) * :current_depth_value"
    leave_broot: false
}

So hypothetically if your depth value was 3 prior to running the toggle_depth command, running the toggle depth value would result in having a depth value of -3 (which I believe would be evaluated to zero), and running the toggle_depth command yet again would return the value to 3!

Let me know if I need to provide a better example!

If there was a way to put all of th elogic into a bashscript and run it and simply have broot reload with new variable settings, this would also be interesting to me. I wonder if broot --cmd has something that works like this?

[Canop]

Ok, so that there's one example and it makes sense, and we could imagine several solutions.

But I'm not super enthusiastic about defining a solution just for one case which would be better handled with a dedicated :modify_depth {difference}. Let's find other useful cases before.