Kaleidoscope

kaleidoscope

Spot the differences, merge in seconds.

Detected by ksdiff | macOS |kaleidoscope.app

Sync it kaleidoscope.toml

Sync rules

What travels, what stays, what never leaves

Kaleidoscope in your home directory Every rule on this page, by file

· ~/Library/Preferences/app.kaleidoscope.v*.plist Sync

· ~/Library/Preferences/com.blackpixel.kaleidoscope.plist Sync

Only what the catalog names. A directory that syncs brings everything inside it except what is listed as excluded here.

apps/kaleidoscope.tomlThe file this page is generated from

id = "kaleidoscope"

name = "Kaleidoscope"

homepage = "https://kaleidoscope.app"

description = "Spot the differences, merge in seconds."

# The apple-touch-icon from kaleidoscope.app.

icon = "https://framerusercontent.com/images/sBfXC6Y8Hm7Ivd2oT5Spzd8atw.png"

# ksdiff is the command Kaleidoscope installs for use as a git/hg diff and

# merge tool. The Homebrew cask runs the app's own installer to put it on the

# PATH — postflight_steps runs

# "Kaleidoscope.app/Contents/Resources/Integration/scripts/install_ksdiff" with

# "{{HOMEBREW_PREFIX}}/bin" as its target — and the uninstall stanza names the

# matching pkgutil receipt app.kaleidoscope.uninstall_ksdiff

# (https://formulae.brew.sh/api/cask/kaleidoscope.json).

detect = ["ksdiff"]

platforms = ["macos"]

# Kaleidoscope is not sandboxed, so its settings are an ordinary preferences

# domain. The cask's uninstall stanza names the current bundle identifier

# ("quit": "app.kaleidoscope.v7") and the zap list carries both the versioned

# domain and the one from the Black Pixel era:

# ~/Library/Preferences/app.kaleidoscope.v*.plist and

# ~/Library/Preferences/com.blackpixel.kaleidoscope.plist. The version number

# moves with each major release, hence the glob — v7 today, v3 on a Mac that

# never upgraded.

paths = [

"[preferences]/app.kaleidoscope.v*.plist",

"[preferences]/com.blackpixel.kaleidoscope.plist",

]

# The caches the same zap list names (~/Library/Caches/app.kaleidoscope.v*,

# ~/Library/HTTPStorages, ~/Library/WebKit) are outside the preferences

# directory, so nothing above needs carving out.

exclude = []

# No whole-file credential: the zap list has no file under the home directory

# that is a credential end to end, and the diff itself never leaves the

# machine. If a licence key sits inside the preferences domain it cannot be

# named here — a plist has no matcher in this schema — so a consumer that

# reads plists should decide about that field itself.

secret = []

# No machine_lines: the domain is the comparison settings, text scope,

# ignore rules and window appearance, which is the reason to carry it.

Use it with your dotfile manager

Same data, in the shape your tool already reads

Opens Otty and adds this tool to what it syncs

Opens otty://sync/add/kaleidoscope. Otty ships with this catalog, so the link only has to name the tool — nothing is downloaded.

Every one of these is generated from the same rules as this page.