On Wed, 13 Nov 2024, Steffen Nurpmeso steffen-at-sdaoden.eu |s-nail| wrote:
Stephen Isard wrote in <[email protected]>: |On Wed, 13 Nov 2024, Steffen Nurpmeso steffen-at-sdaoden.eu |s-nail| wrote: |> Stephen Isard wrote in |> <[email protected]>: |>|I have recently discovered the quote-fold variable, which is _almost_ |>|just what I need. Is there any way to stop it putting '\' at the line |>|breaks that are inserted? I can see how you might sometimes want |>|that, but most often I don't. (Yes, I know that I can pipe through |>|sed 's/\\$//', but it's an extra step.) |> |> Unfortunately not. |> I will change it and add an optional fourth argument, and if any |> of the arguments is .. say, hyphen-minus -, then no such thing is |> written. Does this sound sound? | |Thanks for the quick response, Steffen. Yes, that sounds as if it would |do what I want. I did it a tad differently: If the first character is not a digit it is used as the line- break indicator (by default reverse solidus ‘\’); if it is hy‐ phen-minus ‘-’ no symbol is produced. Thereafter one, two or three (space separated) numeric values are expected
Great. Thank you very much! Stephen Isard
