[Remind-Fans] newlines with -k

[Shelagh Manton]

On Mon, 07 Apr 2008 16:13:59 -0400
"David F. Skoll" <dfs at roaringpenguin.com> wrote:

> John Harrigan wrote:
> 
> > Is there a way to embed newlines into the MSG output when
> > using the -k option?
> 
> Not that I could figure out.  I think you'd need to do something like
> this:
> 
>     SET magic char(3)
> 
>     MSG one[magic]two
> 
> And then:
> 
>     remind -k'my_perl_script %s'
> 
> and have your Perl script do the necessary munging and feeding to
> xmessage.  This is left as an exercise.
> 
> (Before you try it... the "obvious" solution using char(10) does not
> work, alas.)
> 
> Regards,
> 
> David.
Doesn't MSF give you multiline messages? Would this help your script?

Shelagh
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