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Diffstat (limited to 'helpers.lua')
| -rw-r--r-- | helpers.lua | 18 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/helpers.lua b/helpers.lua index 8b6541d..c61468e 100644 --- a/helpers.lua +++ b/helpers.lua @@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ local pairs = pairs local io = { open = io.open } local setmetatable = setmetatable +local getmetatable = getmetatable local string = { upper = string.upper, format = string.format @@ -28,14 +29,21 @@ local scroller = {} -- {{{ Helper functions -- {{{ Expose path as a Lua table -function pathtotable(path) - return setmetatable({}, - { __index = function(_, name) - local f = io.open(path .. '/' .. name) +function pathtotable(dir) + return setmetatable({ _path = dir }, + { __index = function(table, index) + local path = table._path .. '/' .. index + local f = io.open(path) if f then local s = f:read("*all") f:close() - return s + if s then + return s + else + local o = { _path = path } + setmetatable(o, getmetatable(table)) + return o + end end end }) |