Support relative imports in config file

Co-authored-by: Christian Duerr <contact@christianduerr.com>

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -10,6 +10,10 @@ Notable changes to the `alacritty_terminal` crate are documented in its
 
 ## 0.14.0-dev
 
+### Added
+
+- Support relative path imports from config files
+
 ### Changed
 
 - Pressing `Alt` with unicode input will now add `ESC` like for ASCII input

alacritty/src/config/mod.rs

@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ fn parse_config(
     let config = deserialize_config(path, false)?;
 
     // Merge config with imports.
-    let imports = load_imports(&config, config_paths, recursion_limit);
+    let imports = load_imports(&config, path, config_paths, recursion_limit);
     Ok(serde_utils::merge(imports, config))
 }
 
@@ -237,9 +237,14 @@ pub fn deserialize_config(path: &Path, warn_pruned: bool) -> Result<Value> {
 }
 
 /// Load all referenced configuration files.
-fn load_imports(config: &Value, config_paths: &mut Vec<PathBuf>, recursion_limit: usize) -> Value {
+fn load_imports(
+    config: &Value,
+    base_path: &Path,
+    config_paths: &mut Vec<PathBuf>,
+    recursion_limit: usize,
+) -> Value {
     // Get paths for all imports.
-    let import_paths = match imports(config, recursion_limit) {
+    let import_paths = match imports(config, base_path, recursion_limit) {
         Ok(import_paths) => import_paths,
         Err(err) => {
             error!(target: LOG_TARGET_CONFIG, "{err}");
@@ -278,6 +283,7 @@ fn load_imports(config: &Value, config_paths: &mut Vec<PathBuf>, recursion_limit
 /// Get all import paths for a configuration.
 pub fn imports(
     config: &Value,
+    base_path: &Path,
     recursion_limit: usize,
 ) -> StdResult<Vec<StdResult<PathBuf, String>>, String> {
     let imports = match config.get("import") {
@@ -307,6 +313,12 @@ pub fn imports(
             path = home_dir.join(stripped);
         }
 
+        if path.is_relative() {
+            if let Some(base_path) = base_path.parent() {
+                path = base_path.join(path)
+            }
+        }
+
         import_paths.push(Ok(path));
     }
 

alacritty/src/migrate.rs

@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ fn migrate_config(
 
     // Migrate config imports.
     if !options.skip_imports {
-        migrate_imports(options, &mut config, recursion_limit)?;
+        migrate_imports(options, &mut config, path, recursion_limit)?;
     }
 
     // Migrate deprecated field names to their new location.
@@ -110,9 +110,10 @@ fn migrate_config(
 fn migrate_imports(
     options: &MigrateOptions,
     config: &mut Value,
+    base_path: &Path,
     recursion_limit: usize,
 ) -> Result<(), String> {
-    let imports = match config::imports(config, recursion_limit) {
+    let imports = match config::imports(config, base_path, recursion_limit) {
         Ok(imports) => imports,
         Err(err) => return Err(format!("import error: {err}")),
     };

extra/man/alacritty.5.scd

@@ -35,13 +35,15 @@ This section documents the root level of the configuration file.
 	file being loaded last. If a field is already present in a previous import,
 	it will be replaced.
 
-	All imports must either be absolute paths starting with _/_, or paths
+	All imports must either be absolute paths starting with _/_, paths relative
-	relative to the user's home directory starting with _~/_.
+	to the user's home directory starting with _~/_, or paths relative from the
+	current config file.
 
 	Example:
 		import = [++
 	_"~/.config/alacritty/base16-dark.toml"_,++
 	_"~/.config/alacritty/keybindings.toml"_,++
+	_"alacritty-theme/themes/gruvbox_dark.toml"_,++
 ]
 
 *shell* = _"<string>"_ | { program = _"<string>"_, args = [_"<string>"_,] }