From 2742a65819187bc4f0fc70355c174f391c93f9bf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: odrling <florianbadie@odrling.xyz>
Date: Thu, 16 May 2019 11:39:42 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] keep showing the newscount when newsboat is open

---
 .config/i3blocks/news/news | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.config/i3blocks/news/news b/.config/i3blocks/news/news
index f2b35f1..f20484c 100755
--- a/.config/i3blocks/news/news
+++ b/.config/i3blocks/news/news
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
 #!/bin/sh
-newsboat -x print-unread | cut -d' ' -f1
+lastfile=/tmp/lastnewscount.$USER
+last=$(cat $lastfile)
+(newsboat -x print-unread || echo $last) | cut -d' ' -f1 | tee $lastfile