examples/ytfeed.browse-feeds: don't panic

README

@@ -47,12 +47,12 @@ The attributes section follows the text section. The attributes section ends
 with a single newline. Text including and following a hash in the attributes
 section will be ignoroed.
 
-The command section follows the attributes section. The command section is
+The content section follows the attributes section. The content section is
 run as a single argument following the invocation `$ sh -c`, like the C
-standard library's system(3). Each line in the command section is preceded by
+standard library's system(3). Each line in the content section is preceded by
-a horizontal tab, which is removed from the argument; if a line in the command
+a horizontal tab, which is removed from the argument; if a line in the content 
 section is not preceded by a tab, the omission is considered a syntax error (a
-"naked line") and menu(1) exits unsuccessfully. The command section ends with
+"naked line") and menu(1) exits unsuccessfully. The content section ends with
 two consecutive newlines.
 
 ## POSIX systems

examples/installation-helper

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #!usr/bin/env menu
 
 $ echo Hello, world.
-# ^^^ Text   VVV Command
+# ^^^ Text   VVV Content
 	echo Hello, world.
 
 $ cat Makefile

examples/ytfeed.aggregate

@@ -4,13 +4,14 @@ import re, sys, xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
 ET.register_namespace("",      "http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom")
 ET.register_namespace("media", "http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/")
 ET.register_namespace("yt",    "http://www.youtube.com/xml/schemas/2015")
-def sortby(entry):
-    return entry.findall("{http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom}published")[0].text
 macrofeed = ET.Element('feed')
 macrofeed.extend(
     sorted([
             entry
-            # Split the input by file.
+            # Split the input by file. This relies on a typical <XML /> tag
+            # starting a file. Theoretically this assumption could be wrong,
+            # but in that case the XML parser would break before
+            # ytfeed.aggregate could spit malformed output.
             for feed in re.split(r'<\?xml.*?\?>', sys.stdin.read())[1:]
             # Get the entries out of each file.
             for entry
@@ -18,9 +19,8 @@ macrofeed.extend(
                     .findall("{http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom}entry")
         ],
         # Gets the publication date and sorts the entries from old to new.
-        key = lambda entry
+        key = lambda entry # (this is a text sort but it still works)
            : entry.findall("{http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom}published")[0].text,
-        reverse = False # toggle this to switch the order
     )
 )
 print(ET.tostring(macrofeed, encoding="unicode"))

examples/ytfeed.browse-feed

@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ for entry in root.findall("{http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom}entry"):
             + f("%-22s - ", entry, "author/name")
             + f("%s", entry, "title") + "\n\n"
         # Command
-            + "\t" + "ytfeed.browse-entry <<EOF | ../menu" + "\n"
+            + "\t" + "ytfeed.browse-entry <<EOF | menu" + "\n"
             + "\t" + ET.tostring(entry, encoding="unicode")
                 .replace("\n", "\n\t").rstrip() + "\n"
             + "\tEOF",

examples/ytfeed.browse-feeds

@@ -9,8 +9,11 @@ directory = sys.argv[1]
 for f in os.listdir(directory):
     file_name = os.path.join(directory, f)
     if os.path.isfile(file_name) and f[-4:] == ".xml":
-        tree = ET.parse(file_name)
+        try: tree = ET.parse(file_name)
-        root = tree.getroot()
+        except ET.ParseError as e:
+            print("%s: %s: %s" % (sys.argv[0], file_name, e), file = sys.stderr)
+            continue
+        else: root = tree.getroot()
         try:
             channels += [
                 "%s\n\n" % root.find('{http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom}title').text

examples/ytfeed.dl

@@ -13,9 +13,12 @@ while test -n "$2"; do
 	else curl=false
 	fi
 	filename="$(printf '%s/%s.xml\n' "$directory" "$2")"
-	if ! $curl "$xml_url_prefix""$2" >"$filename"
+	$curl "$xml_url_prefix""$2" >"$filename".new
-		then rm -f "$filename"
+	if ! grep '<title>' <"$filename".new | head -n 1 \
-	else printf '%s\n' "$filename"
+			| grep 404 >/dev/null 2>&1
+	then mv "$filename".new "$filename" \
+		&& printf '%s\n' "$filename"
 	fi
+	rm -f "$filename".new
 	shift
 done

menu.rs

@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ fn print_entries(entries: &[Entry]) {
 
     eprintln!("");
     for (index, entry) in entries.iter().enumerate() {
-        eprint!(
+        eprintln!(
             "[{:>index_len$}]: {}",
             index + 1,
             entry.text,
@@ -82,9 +82,7 @@ fn main() -> ExitCode {
             }
             Ok(file) => Box::new(BufReader::new(file)),
         }
-    } else {
+    } else { Box::new(io::stdin().lock()) };
-        Box::new(io::stdin().lock())
-    };
     let user_input: Box<dyn BufRead> = if argv.len() <= 1 {
         match File::open("/dev/tty") {
             Err(e) => {
@@ -92,9 +90,7 @@ fn main() -> ExitCode {
             }
             Ok(file) => Box::new(BufReader::new(file)),
         }
-    } else {
+    } else { Box::new(io::stdin().lock()) }; // ...Oops! I did it again.
-        Box::new(io::stdin().lock())
-    }; // ...Oops! I did it again.
 
     // Parser
     {
@@ -114,11 +110,11 @@ fn main() -> ExitCode {
                     }
                 }
                 State::Text => {
-                    entry.text = line.clone() + "\n";
+                    entry.text = line.clone();
                     state = State::Attributes;
                 }
                 State::Attributes => {
-                    entry.attr = line.clone() + "\n";
+                    entry.attr = line.clone();
                     state = State::Content;
                 }
                 State::Content => match line.chars().next() {
@@ -160,10 +156,11 @@ fn main() -> ExitCode {
         if line != "" {
             match line.parse::<usize>() {
                 Err(e) => {
-                    return error(&argv[0], &line, &e);
+                    eprintln!("{}: Could not parse selection (try 0..{})",
+                        argv[0], entries.len());
                 }
                 Ok(n) => {
-                    if n != 0 {
+                    if n != 0 && n <= entries.len() {
                         match Command::new("sh")
                             .arg("-c")
                             .arg(entries[n - 1].cont.clone())
@@ -177,8 +174,9 @@ fn main() -> ExitCode {
                                 Ok(_) => { print_entries(&entries); }
                             },
                         }
-                    }
+                    } else if n > entries.len() {
-                    if n == 0 || exit_on_selection {
+                        eprintln!("{}: Selection out of range", argv[0]);
+                    } else if n == 0 || exit_on_selection {
                         return ExitCode::SUCCESS;
                     }
                 }