Re: use linux native notifications with tea-time

[Kevin Rodgers]

On 6/8/11 8:42 AM, Dove Young wrote:
> In your function, the actual command send to shell is 'notify-send Time is up! 1
> minutes'
>
> dove@bash-4.2$ notify-send Time is up! 1 minutes
> Invalid number of options.
>
> You should modify your function in this way, quote notification string before
> send it to your shell
>
> (defun show-notification (notification)
>   (shell-command (format "notify-send '%s'" notification) )
> )

Or let shell-quote-argument do the quoting for you:

(shell-command (format "notify-send %s" (shell-quote-argument notification)))

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Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA