http://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/manual.html#5.7 the doc also found on other resources scripts using IO not io, that still aint working...
On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 3:14 PM, trevor donahue <donahue.tre...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi folks, > is anyone of you using awesome wm? > I've been struggling with a little bit of a problem lately, wanted to > create a widget that retrieves gmail data using curl. The problem > encountered is the function io.popen() that returns nil [attempt to index > io nil value] (as having an error in lua) even though not doing anything > special, tested also with ls -l and other trivial bash commands... > > Can somebody help me resolve the problem? > -- Thanks, Donahue Trevor
