al-skel/home/.config/awesome/vicious/widgets/mbox.lua

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-- Licensed under the GNU General Public License v2
--  * (c) 2010, Adrian C. <anrxc@sysphere.org>
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-- {{{ Grab environment
local type = type
local io = { open = io.open }
local setmetatable = setmetatable
local string = { gfind = string.gfind }
local helpers = require("vicious.helpers")
-- }}}


-- Mbox: provides the subject of last e-mail in a mbox file
-- vicious.widgets.mbox
local mbox = {}


-- Initialize variables
local subject = "N/A"

-- {{{ Mailbox widget type
local function worker(format, warg)
  if not warg then return end

  -- mbox could be huge, get a 30kb chunk from EOF
  if type(warg) ~= "table" then _mbox = warg end
  -- * attachment could be much bigger than 30kb
  local f = io.open(_mbox or warg[1])
  f:seek("end", -30720)
  local txt = f:read("*all")
  f:close()

  -- Find all Subject lines
  for i in string.gfind(txt, "Subject: ([^\n]*)") do
    subject = i
  end

  -- Check if we should scroll, or maybe truncate
  if type(warg) == "table" then
    if warg[3] ~= nil then
      subject = helpers.scroll(subject, warg[2], warg[3])
    else
      subject = helpers.truncate(subject, warg[2])
    end
  end

  return {helpers.escape(subject)}
end
-- }}}

return setmetatable(mbox, { __call = function(_, ...) return worker(...) end })