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Bug 613999 - Use g_strcompress in notify-send to parse \n from command line
Use g_strcompress in notify-send to parse \n from command line
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: libnotify
Classification: Platform
Component: general
git master
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: William Jon McCann
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2010-03-26 11:18 UTC by Mike Massonnet
Modified: 2010-04-03 00:22 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
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Attachments
Replace escape characters with g_strcompress in body (728 bytes, patch)
2010-03-26 11:18 UTC, Mike Massonnet 		none Details | Review

Description Mike Massonnet 2010-03-26 11:18:21 UTC 
Created attachment 157151 [details] [review]
Replace escape characters with g_strcompress in body

It would be cool to allow using \n like characters from the command line with the tool notify-send. Currently it simply displays \n characters, and one has to recover to a sub-command with echo like following:

notify-send summary "`echo -e 'Hello\nWorld\n'`"

The attached patch makes a call to g_strcompress to replace all escaped characters.
Comment 1 William Jon McCann 2010-04-03 00:22:32 UTC 
Seems useful.  Pushed a similar patch to master.  You need to free the result of g_strcompress.  Thanks.