From 49b1b0972f7db6ef77b459e3010c3b569fa69534 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Adrian C. (anrxc)" <anrxc@sysphere.org>
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 03:02:50 +0100
Subject: helpers: index subdirectories in pathtotable()

---
 helpers.lua | 18 +++++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

(limited to 'helpers.lua')

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
     })
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