David Lutterkort <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yes, as I understand what Raphael was asking for, quotient > lenses/canonizers would be the right answer. The goal would be, e.g. to > make sure that the white space between the IP address and the canonical > hosts name in /etc/hosts is always a single space (or a tab or ...)
indeed, but I think we want (most) comments to stay around. adding a new primitive which is synonomous with "del" except when reformatting might do the trick. > A similar request which I think is a little harder to accomplish is > to make sure the entries in /etc/fstab line up, i.e. have the second > column in /etc/fstab start in column 24 on all lines. For that, I am > not even sure how you would achieve that since you'd need to know > where on the line you are. it might be best to make it a completely separate language if you want this kind of control, but a simple printf directive associated with each node might help. you won't get the minimal spacing, but you could say "%-20s" to pad it to at least 20 characters. -- regards, Kjetil T. _______________________________________________ augeas-devel mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/augeas-devel
