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authorJörg Thalheim <joerg@higgsboson.tk>2014-11-12 23:43:24 +0100
committerAdrian C. (anrxc) <anrxc@sysphere.org>2014-11-15 22:03:12 +0100
commit336ce9bbd7c620226d0ef01ba58c02be12f7b90e (patch)
tree5b0a621678799fcbb68add662b937087354989eb /README
parent50fd2334b6a720f798782f7690287b71642cb9a8 (diff)
downloadvicious-legacy-336ce9bbd7c620226d0ef01ba58c02be12f7b90e.tar.xz
shell escape variables before passing them to the shell
Signed-off-by: Adrian C. (anrxc) <anrxc@sysphere.org>
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@@ -224,8 +224,10 @@ vicious.widgets.wifi
vicious.widgets.mbox
- provides the subject of last e-mail in a mbox file
- takes the full path to the mbox as an argument, or a table with
- 1st field as path, 2nd as maximum lenght and 3rd (optional) as
- widget name - if 3rd field is present scrolling will be used
+ 1st field as path, 2nd as maximum length and 3rd (optional) as
+ widget name - if 3rd field is present scrolling will be used (note: the
+ path will be escaped so special variables like ~ will not work, use
+ os.getenv("HOME").."mail" instead to access environment variables)
- returns 1st value as the subject of the last e-mail
vicious.widgets.mboxc
@@ -244,7 +246,7 @@ vicious.widgets.mdir
vicious.widgets.gmail
- provides count of new and subject of last e-mail on Gmail
- takes an (optional) argument, if it's a number subject will be
- truncated, if a table, with 1st field as maximum lenght and 2nd
+ truncated, if a table, with 1st field as maximum length and 2nd
the widget name (i.e. "gmailwidget"), scrolling will be used
- keeps login information in the ~/.netrc file, example:
machine mail.google.com login user password pass