On Wed, Jan 10, 2024 at 11:41:01AM +0000, Ioan Samarul wrote: > I am trying to define mappings in cwmrc for some of my scripts. If I > use the full path (/home/user/bin/someScript) they work as expected, > but if I use something like $HOME/bin/someScript cwm does not > recognize the mapping. > > Is there something else I should do or it is just not possible to use > environment variables?
You can't use $HOME in cwmrc as part of the path to a script. However, if you specify a path without a leading / then cwm will search the current path for an executable with that name. So if your users' paths are set to include $HOME/bin, and each user has their own $HOME/bin/my_script, then a line like this in cwmrc: bind-key KP_Right "my_script" will run each user's own version of the script. Obviously you need to make sure that they don't have a global directory such as /bin listed in their path before $HOME/bin, which has a file with the same name in it, otherwise that would be run instead. If a global directory is listed afterwards, and contains a file with that name then you could have a global 'default' action for a key, which can be over-ridden with a custom script by each user. Although if it is actually a multi-user system, rather than just you using different accounts, then consider that such behaviour could be abused if a user can be tricked in to creating a file in $HOME/bin/my_script that didn't already exist.
