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Multiline overlay text #325
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Should be an easy enough change to the |
It's actually Doing Line 1947 in eeaf5e3
preserves the newlines in overlay text. The manual for wordexp says that setting
So setting |
@eXeC64, would it make sense to add another shell expansion mechanism for One thing we could do is let the user run a shell command and use its output as overlay text. Interface-wise, we could trigger this by a special prefix in We could also use some library that implements wordexp functionality in a cleaner way. Quick googling didin't give me any though. Let me know what you think. |
It would be convenient to keep external tools' formatting in overlay_text option. So that overlay_text = $(jhead $imv_current_file) gives multiline output as jhead does itself. Or to add support of some "formatting characters" such as "\n". Translation 0xA into '0x5C6E' of jhead's output I would do by an external program.
Thanks for great software!
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