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I want to have a way of outputting a terminal command, like:
$ cat todo.org | awk '{ print $1 }' > dashboard_widget
Into a dashboard widget, not necessarily the text output of a command. Maybe a "iTerm2" dashboard that only outputs but doesn't get input from the user.
What I want to do with this is to have the output of a emacs buffer with my todo list.
licorna
Posted 2012-05-02T15:16:25.683
Reputation: 471
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There are dashboard widgets that execute shell scripts and display the output.
Examples:
http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/networking_security/shellwatcher.html
http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/developer/quickcommand.html
Your script can call emacs in batch mode to preprocess and export your todo.org into plain text mode, or you can use your awk preprocessing instead.
Juancho
Posted 2012-05-02T15:16:25.683
Reputation: 2 187
What did you try so far? – Daniel Beck – 2012-05-02T15:32:05.020
Don't know where to start. Already googled by didn't find any solution. – licorna – 2012-05-02T16:38:06.813
My suggestion: Set up a cron or launchd job to periodically transform your todo list like in the example you provided into an output file. Display that file's contents in a widget by getting a script's (
– Daniel Beck – 2012-05-02T17:02:58.183catcomes to mind) output. This should help. Dashcode is part of Xcode.