On Wed, 2021-12-15 at 22:11 +0100, R. Diez wrote: > I would add some normal text around the variable expansion and a > comment for the unwary:
As I noted in my followup there's no need to add text to both the start and end. Just putting some char(s) at the start (or end, I guess) is sufficient: you just don't want it to appear empty, even if it is empty.