.help json value request about xdg-ninja HOT 7 CLOSED

➜ apply_shell_expansion "\$XDG_CONFIG_HOME"
 /home/b3nj4m1n/.config

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i can't really optimize xdg-ninja without a clear understanding of apply_shell_expansion() and decode_string(), i thought doing something like this wouldn't be so hard. but so far i've reached 80 SLOC

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Sorry, but I won't remove the markdown.

What exactly are you trying to optimise?

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Sorry, but I won't remove the markdown.

Okay. i guess i will try to add it in my optimized version.

What exactly are you trying to optimise?

Everything. There is many duplicate lines and ton's of complicated scripting that could have been so simple, i can show you how it looks so far but it doesn't work as i completely removed the markdown rendering as that could make the script much more simpler and easier to manage.

it also does not work due to my previous comment, generally, it is also unsafe to use eval, so please tell me how it works.

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apply_shell_expansion expands environment variables in strings,decode_string does what the comment says: Replace \n with literal newline and " with ", normalize number of trailing newlines to 2.

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expands environment variables in strings

Example?

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Hmm. Okay. i will soon open a PR and explain each change i did.

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