cottage

###Use howm's commands, operators and set configuration values through a UNIX socket.

Contents

• Installation
• [Configuration] (#configuration)
• [Usage] (#usage)
• [Errors] (#errors)

##Installation Cottage is on the AUR, there are two packages for it:

• cottage-git is the bleeding edge package.
• cottage is the package based off of stable releases.

If you can't use the AUR, then there may be a package available for your distro.

As a last resort, do the following:

git clone https://github.com/HarveyHunt/cottage
cd cottage
make
sudo make install

Configuration

Configuration is extremely minimal and is done from within the cottage source file or by setting environment variables.

In order to change the socket that cottage attempts to connect to, modify the environment variable HOWM_SOCK. For example:

export HOWM_SOCK=/tmp/howm_test

• BUF_SIZE: The size of the sending buffer.

#define BUF_SIZE 1024

Usage

Changing howm's config value is done in the following manner:

cottage -c config_var value

Calling one of howm's functions is done in the following manner:

cottage -f function_name <args>

It is possible to call operators using cottage by calling functions to set the operator, the count and finally the motion. Here is an example:

cottage -f op_kill
cottage -f count 2
cottage -f motion w

Alternatively, it is possible to execute a complete operation using a single command:

cottage -o op_kill 2 w

Errors

Upon error, howm will return a response code. Cottage will print a relevant error message and return EXIT_FAILURE.