Tweaking BashBlog to make it easier to read using RSS
February 09, 2024 —
Nico Cartron
The Problem
I recently realised that, because I was using a <hr /> tag in BashBlog to
split the title/summary of an article, with the rest of the article, meant that
newsreader would only display what is before that tag:
That's rather annoying, as the whole point of a newsreader is not to read the article in a web browser, but stay inside the newsreader.
The solution
Once again, since BashBlog is opensource and I have access to its source code (it's a single Bash script), all I had to do was to modify it:
% diff bb.sh bb.sh.20231125
943,945c943
< # Nico 20231125 - remove $cut_do in get_htm_file_content
< # below to include the entire articles content in the RSS feed
< #get_html_file_content 'text' 'entry' $cut_do <"$i"
---
> get_html_file_content 'text' 'entry' $cut_do <"$i"
and once I had regenerated my articles, it now looks a lot better:
