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From: Ellenor Bjornsdottir <ellenor-zshw@umbrellix.net>
To: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>,
	Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>
Cc: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: empty pipes
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2022 01:17:46 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <07cdf2f3-34e1-f8bc-53c2-96f492911521@umbrellix.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAH+w=7aX_mOshwAX8RBABZ=G9RyyzXOckvkh7WzDLFSNGS1DwA@mail.gmail.com>

In the alternative, you can build the string used to execute the 
pipeline piecemeal?

On 12/13/22 02:04, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 12, 2022 at 6:02 AM Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca> wrote:
>> BTW, do we have hard spaces?
> That's up to the terminal and the context.  Zsh normally doesn't
> output special characters like non-breaking spaces but since you refer
> to ...
>
>> certain columnizing situations
> ... I would presume you're controlling the output, so you could place
> $'\u00a0' wherever you need it.
>
> Most terminals are going to wrap at the right margin even for
> non-breaking spaces, so unless you're using a proportional font for
> some reason, ASCII spaces are likely just as good.
>
-- 
Ellenor Agnes Bjornsdottir (she)
sysadmin umbrellix.net
jabber: ellenor ~on~ umbrellix.net



      parent reply	other threads:[~2022-12-16  1:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-12-12  3:17 Ray Andrews
2022-12-12  3:40 ` Bart Schaefer
2022-12-12 14:01   ` Ray Andrews
2022-12-13  2:04     ` Bart Schaefer
2022-12-14 13:05       ` Are there zsh error message explanation Xiao Ling XL Chen
2022-12-15 21:18         ` Daniel Shahaf
2022-12-16  3:28           ` Bart Schaefer
2022-12-16  3:53             ` Ray Andrews
2022-12-16  4:07               ` Bart Schaefer
2022-12-16 14:16                 ` Ray Andrews
2022-12-16 12:47             ` Daniel Shahaf
2022-12-16 14:00               ` Ray Andrews
2022-12-16  1:17       ` Ellenor Bjornsdottir [this message]

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