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authorTomáš Janoušek <tomi@nomi.cz>2020-07-23 17:18:05 +0200
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readme: Document escaping in UnsafeStdinReader
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- Aliases to UnsafeStdinReader
- Displays any text received by xmobar on its standard input.
- Will not do anything to the text received. This means you can pass dynamic
- actions via stdin. Be careful to remove tags from dynamic text that you
- pipe-thru to xmobar's standard input, e.g. window's title. There is no way
- to escape the tags, i.e. you can't print a literal `<action>` tag as a text
- on xmobar.
+ actions via stdin. Be careful to escape (using `<raw=…>`) or remove tags
+ from dynamic text that you pipe-thru to xmobar's standard input, e.g.
+ window's title.
- Sample usage: send to xmobar's stdin the list of your workspaces enclosed by
actions tags that switches the workspaces to be able to switch workspaces by
clicking on xmobar: