[email protected] writes: > Quoting Connor Lane Smith <[email protected]>: > >> The change was intentional. The logic being that lines go in and a >> line comes out... Rather than some fragment of a line. (dmenu strips >> newlines when reading, and restores them when printing.) Is there a >> reason why you preferred the earlier behaviour? > > No reason to prefer one behavior to another here, but I do prefer > consistency. =) > > I maintain yeganesh (see <http://dmwit.com/yeganesh> for more info), > and profiles have started getting cluttered up with a version with a > newline and a version without from people upgrading dmenu. However, as > long as there's a clear policy on which versions will output an extra > newline it's easy to work around by checking the output of "dmenu -v" > first.
You could also unconditionally strip trailing newlines, since they will never be part of a selection proper, but always a terminator. -- \ Troels /\ Henriksen
