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]>:
 |>|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.)
 ...
 |>|> I did[.]
 |>|>     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
 ...
 |> i will change it to say "if the last character is not a digit",
 |> you know, then we are backward-compatible.
 |> I hope this is also ok :)
 |
 |Sure!

Even better (maybe), if all empty only the quote character
compression is performed, but no line wrapping at all.
(Together with a possible future support of text=flowed i no
longer will have to bear firefox developers trying to fool me, and
sending me unbelievable large screenshots.)
(I also fixed possible misbehaviour with a "nonsense" first
argument; *quote-fold* was added in 2012 and by then users' well
behaviour was simply a precondition.)

Ciao Stephen.

--steffen
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