mitsuse / swim

A command line tool to switch the current input method by identifier for macOS.

Swim

Switch the current input method by identifier.

Installation

Prebuilt binary is not provided. Please build from source:

git clone -b 0.4.0 https://github.com/mitsuse/swim.git && cd swim
swift build -c release
cp .build/release/swim ${YOUR_EXECUTABLE_PATH}

Usage

swim has two sub-commands: list and use.

list

This sub-command lists identifiers of available input sources on the standard output. Identifiers are separated by new line.

For example, swim list presents the following output:

com.apple.keyboardlayout.ABC
com.apple.inputmethod.Kotoeri.Japanese

If --name option is enabled, the command presents the name and the identifier of input sources with format like name (identifier):

ABC (com.apple.keyboardlayout.ABC)
Hiragana (com.apple.inputmethod.Kotoeri.Japanese)

You can filter them to present the current input source with --current option.

use

This sub-comman switch to the input method specified with the given identifier. For example, swim use com.apple.inputmethod.Kotoeri.Japanese switches the current input source to Japanese. If the given identifier is invalid or unavailable, the command exits with unavailableSource (exit code: 65).

License

The content of this repository are licensed under the MIT License unless otherwise noted. Please read LICENSE for the detail.