DDTCRC.5(5)

💖 DDTCRC.5 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the <pink>ddtcrc</pink> manual, section 5 of the manual pages, and it's literally just the tea on the .ddtcrc file. sit down, hydrate, let's go 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

.ddtcrc — the config file for the ddtc script. that's it, that's the name, periodt 💅

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so this is the configuration file for ddtc, no cap. if it exists, it has to live at the top of your home directory ($HOME). it's optional tho — unless you don't wanna use the default values, in which case bestie you need it ✨

here's the vibe check on parsing:

• lines starting with a number sign (#) get ignored, and so do empty lines. bye 👋
• spaces at the beginning and the end of a line get ignored too, plus tabulators. all of it, gone.
• but if you need spaces at the end or the beginning of a value, you can use apostrophes ("). iconic loophole honestly 🎀
• an option line starts with its name, followed by a value.
• an equal sign is optional. it's giving optional. it's giving "do what feels right".
• a comment starts with the number sign, and there can be any number of spaces and/or tab stops in front of the #.

some possible examples, pls study them, they're on the exam:

# this line is ignored
option   value
option = value                               # this is a comment
option        "value ending with space   "

you have to escape number signs with a backslash (\) if you wanna use one inside a value. don't skip that step, it's not optional, fr fr 😭

default values are provided inside square brackets, and they should be suitable for most installations. like, they're the defaults for a reason, bestie.

and ooh — you can use the configuration menu from interactive mode to edit it. chef's kiss, no editor required 💅

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👑 GENERAL 👑

• base_dir — base directory, and it's a sub-directory of your $HOME unless you provide an absolute path (i.e. one beginning with /) [ddts]
• comment — comment string for review, and a space character will be added to this string [>>]
• clean_regex — regular expression to remove file with the clean command [~\$|\.old\$|\.bak\$]
• language — language extension to use when asking for new documents to translate or to review [none]
• editor — text editor [sensible-editor]
• ddtc_bug — whether reviews are sent in a special way to prevent updating ddts parts databases or not. [no]

⚠️ Caution: if set to yes, the reply to accept modification ddts feature doesn't work anymore and the whole language team should use ddtc. Ask your language team coordinator before setting this option. like, pls actually ask, this one is a whole group decision 💀

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📧 EMAIL 📧

• mail_out — your email address [first found in $ENV{EMAIL}, $ENV{DEBEMAIL} or none]
• mail_in — the mail address you want the ddts to answer to. This is the address the ddts uses for your identification so you must use this if you need to set mail_out to another value [mail_out]
• mail_server — email address of the server [desc@ddtp.debian.org]
• mail_encoding — mail encoding for mime [8bit]
• mail_charset — mail charset for mime [ISO-8859-1 for lack of charset used by ddts]
• mail_self — set to yes if you want to be sent a copy of outgoing mail [yes]

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🌈 MENU COLORS 🌈

Set text colors for clear presentation. it's giving aesthetic, it's giving readability, we love to see it ✨

The recognized colors (all of which should be fairly intuitive) are: clear, reset, dark, bold, underline, underscore, blink, reverse, concealed, black, red, green, yellow, blue, magenta, cyan, white, on_black, on_red, on_green, on_yellow, on_blue, on_magenta, on_cyan, and on_white.

Case is not significant. underline and underscore are equivalent, as are clear and reset, so use whichever is the most intuitive to you. The color alone sets the foreground color, and on_color sets the background color. iykyk 🦋

Note that not all colors are supported by all terminal types, and some terminals may not support any of these sequences. dark, blink, and concealed in particular are frequently not implemented. so if your terminal says no... it said no, bestie 😭

• menu_title_color — color used for menu title [bold cyan]
• menu_letter_color — color used for the letter to be entered [bold cyan]
• menu_text_color — color used for the menu item description [cyan]

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⭐ EXAMPLE ⭐

A ddtc configuration example file can be found at /usr/share/doc/ddtc/ddtcrc. go look, it's right there, you're welcome 💖

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🎀 SEE ALSO 🎀

ddtc(1). yes, go read that one next, it's the main character 👑

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💜 AUTHOR 💜

Nicolas Bertolissio <bertol@debian.org>

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! this was documented by perl v5.40.1, dated 2026-01-16 🧚✨ thanks for reading, mwah 💅💖🌸