Editing and drafts in the TUI

The Details panel shows the selected item and contains its edit form. Its title changes to Parameter, Group, or Condition for those entity types. Select a parameter, group, condition, or value and press Enter to open it.

Parameters and groups

The Parameters tree preserves the Remote Config hierarchy: groups contain parameters, and parameters contain a default plus any conditional values. Empty and description-only groups remain visible.

Key	Action
Space	Expand or collapse
a	Add a parameter
A	Add an empty group
c	Duplicate a parameter
b	Show the latest retained change for the selected parameter
e	Edit the selected value
E	Edit text or JSON externally
r	Rename a parameter or group
m	Move a parameter or group
x	Delete the selected item
y / Y	Copy the name or full path

Press b on either a parameter or one of its expanded values to find its newest direct change in retained Firebase history. The side-by-side diff shows the publishing user and local publication time below the parameter heading. This popup is titled Blame; ordinary History popups remain titled Diff and omit that attribution. Press Esc to close the diff or q to quit fbrcm.

Group deletion is an explicit group-level operation and removes every parameter inside it. Other parameter mutations preserve empty groups and descriptions.

Conditions

Conditions appear in Firebase evaluation order. Open one to inspect its raw expression, display color, priority, and every parameter value that refers to it.

Key	Action
a	Add a condition
e	Edit the Firebase expression
c	Change the display color
r	Rename the condition and its references
m	Change evaluation priority
x	Delete the condition and its conditional values

Priority changes are Remote Config changes, not cosmetic sorting, because Firebase evaluates conditions in order.

Save an edit

Inside Details:

Key	Action
Esc	Close or cancel the current editor
Right / e	Edit the selected field
a	Add a conditional value
d	Toggle the in-app-default source
Ctrl+Enter	Save Details
Ctrl+Y	Copy the selected value or expression

If the target has no draft, saving opens a choice to publish immediately or save a draft. Once a draft exists, later edits stage into it automatically.

Every mutation review includes an optional change note. A saved draft remembers the note; publishing sends it to Firebase as the new version description.

Edit large text and JSON

Press E to pause the TUI and edit a private staged file with an external editor. fbrcm resolves the command from FBRCM_EDITOR, VISUAL, then EDITOR. GUI editors must wait for the file to close:

FBRCM_EDITOR="code --wait" fbrcm

After the editor exits, fbrcm validates and compacts JSON. It rejects invalid content and keeps the recovery file so you can reopen it.

The built-in JSON editor uses Ctrl+F to format and Ctrl+S or Ctrl+Enter to save. Large values automatically use the external-editor path.

Review and publish drafts

The project row indicates when the displayed template includes draft state.

Key	Action
p	Publish the current draft
P	Publish all drafts
d	Discard the current draft
D	Discard all drafts

Publication fetches current Firebase state, rebases local intent with a three-way merge, shows the exact candidate, validates it, and publishes with ETag protection. Conflicts and validation failures keep the draft intact.

Import, export, and promotion

In Projects, i, e, and d operate on the project under the cursor, not the set of marked projects.

• Import supports merge or replacement, item selection, filtering, condition cleanup, and per-conflict choices.
• Export writes the effective Remote Config template.
• Application defaults downloads platform-specific defaults from Firebase.
• Promotion compares one source target with another. You select the parameters, groups, and conditions to transfer.

All resulting writes rejoin the same review, draft, and publication workflow.