Marsala

A notification aggregator based on tiramisu written in bash

Features

* Daemon & Client

  Marsala has a daemon and client mode
  The daemon as the word implies runs in the background
  storing the notifciations in a temp direcotry
  The client provides a nice way of viewing them
  ( or just use cat :P )

* Notifications sorting

  The notifications that marsala gathers is sorted based on
  sources.

Dependencies

• bash 4+
• tiramisu source

CLI Options

marsala [options]

-D (start daemon)
-h (help)
-v (version)

Keybindings

Keys   Function
n ->   next source feed
p <-   prev source feed
r      refresh feed
c      clear the current feed
P      display the current field in a pager
?      goto help

Usage

$ marsala -D   # Start the daemon

$ marsala      # Start the client

Customisation

Customisations are done through envoirment variables

# Path to store temp dir of marsala
# /tmp is chosen as default since it gets cleaned
# on every boot (changes distro to distro)
export MARSALA_TMPDIR=

# Specifies the format that will be pased to the
# -o flag in tiramisu.
# Check the tiramisu README for more info about the
# output formats
export TIRAMISU_FORMAT="#summary"$'\n'"#body"

Why Marsala ?

An excerpt about tiramisu from wikipedia

Traditional tiramisu contains a short list of ingredients: finger biscuits, egg yolks, sugar, coffee, mascarpone cheese, cocoa powder and sometimes liquor..... Among the most common alcoholic changes includes the addition of Marsala.

About my code

It's heaivily influenced to by dylanaraps way of doing things. I fear it might be too much, cos I feel like I'm bordering plagarism. Need to find mah identity