Hello Stephen.
Stephen Isard wrote in
<853-1663355387-506...@sneakemail.com>:
|On Fri, 16 Sep 2022, Steffen Nurpmeso steffen-at-sdaoden.eu |s-nail| wrote:
|...
|> Well ok but the manual includes a fully spelled out example for
|> on-compose-splice:
|>
|> define ocs_signature {
|> read version
|> echo '~< ~/.mysig' # '~<! fortune pathtofortunefile'
|>}
|> set on-compose-splice=ocs_signature
|
|This works, but I don't actually understand how. The man page says that
|'read' reads a line from standard input and assigns it to the given
|variable. What is standard input going to be in this case? Is it the
|output of echo?[.]
Well the splice hooks run in a dedicated subprocess that can act
"as if it were a user", so you basically have to echo the commands
you want "the user" to run. The process itself can only run
a restricted set of commands itself (it is a separate process,
say).
|[.]The given variable is 'version', which is read-only, so
|can't get assigned to. What causes the quoted string to get evaluated?
Oops. Well i think bitrot hammered into this one. I'll fix it in
a second, thanks for noticing! (And as above.)
--steffen
|
|Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear,
|der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one
|einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off
|(By Robert Gernhardt)
