Martin Wilck

Hey, @ederag's :-1: is back :grin: Not sure which part of my commend earned me the thumbs down this time, but I'm kind of used to getting it from ederag,...

> cmdline 13:37 act\@act@cat\, cat, #tag1 #tag2 for ... and you (the human being) are able to parse this correctly?

> need to check that hamster-shell-extension and xfce4-hamster-plugin don't break? The shell extension performs only (very trivial) parsing to separate the start time and the rest of the command line....

@Flupp, can you please share the syntax rules you implemented here? How exactly does your escaping algorithm work? > The parser does not complain about control characters I don't follow....

> Note the $'' in the hamster add $'act\nti\tvity@ca\tte\ngory, #tag\nnl\tab' command that @Flupp posted. This is bash syntax that interprets \n and passes an actual newline character to the hamster...

For unicode, I think we'd be on the safe side if we cleanly use python utf8 decode/encode everywhere. I am not sure if we do, though. Add-ons like the GNOME...

I am unsure if "simply refusing to input the comma" is a good strategy. Some users may think their keyboard is broken. Instead, when a comma is entered in the...

This message means that hamster itself (the python application that provides the DBUs service) has quit or crashed. If that happens, the extension stops indeed. It's possible that there's a...

That should be fine, it includes 75541ac ("Merge pull request #358 from matthijskooijman/handle-hamster-restarts").

What version of hamster (the python code) are you running? I don't deny the GNOME extension doesn't behave perfectly, but the root cause is that hamster is dying. Maybe you...