Refactoring and Operators

It's now possible to send an entire operation as one command:

cottage -o op_kill 1 c

I've also refactored the code and simplified the Makefile.

Enjoy :-)

Some nice fixes and subtle changes

This is a small update to cottage as RL is in the way. :-( I have made a few subtle changes to match new functionality that howm now has. The single bug fix is:

• Negative arguments are now handled correctly

The new functionality / general improvements are:

• Added support for IPC_ERR_NO_CONFIG to alert the user that they are trying to change a config option that doesn't exist.
• Removed some unnecessary imports.
• Read HOWM_SOCK from the environment to work out where the socket is.
• Added support for printing the version number.
• Changed to install directory from /usr/local/bin/ to /usr/bin/

Cheers. :-)

A fresh start

As I mentioned in howm's latest release, I have made the decision to move away from a config header and cottage has paved the way for that.

It is now possible to configure all aspects of howm using a syntax like so:

cottage -c config_var val

I have also added some more error outputs for when things go wrong.

I have mentioned the changes to howm and my motivation for them on my blog

howm away from howm

Cottage is a small utility that allows users to control howm from the command line or scripts.

Usage is as follows:

cottage [function] <args>

Where function is one of the functions within howm that can be bound to a key and args are the arguments to be passed to the function, separated by spaces.