On 08/01/15 08:25, Markus Elfring wrote: >>> Let's just go with -t CHAR for now. >> >> attached an updated patch, with more tests, and documentation. > > Thanks for your concrete update suggestion. > > I would like to clarify a few more implementation details > of your improvement. > * Will it also influence the functionality around the parameter > "--number=chunks"?
Should work the same. > * How will the involved text line counting be affected by the configurable > record set delimiter? Ditto. We'll probably go with the --separator option rather than --line-separator to avoid ambiguities like that. We'll adjust the docs for --lines, --line-bytes, and --number, with something like s|lines|lines/records|. thanks, Pádraig.
