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boundary="------------8WNJBF0o3QF5EKp00u8acD60" Message-id: Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2024 10:16:14 -0700 MIME-version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: vanishing spaces To: zsh-users@zsh.org References: <3643c571-5830-420c-9d1f-88a6bf22cc0e@eastlink.ca> Content-language: en-US From: Ray Andrews In-reply-to: X-Seq: 29745 Archived-At: X-Loop: zsh-users@zsh.org Errors-To: zsh-users-owner@zsh.org Precedence: list Precedence: bulk Sender: zsh-users-request@zsh.org X-no-archive: yes List-Id: List-Help: , List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Owner: List-Archive: This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------8WNJBF0o3QF5EKp00u8acD60 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit On 2024-03-30 09:07, Marc Chantreux wrote: > aptitude search '~i~nnvidia' for short. check it out: Works fine, thanks. > good: > > output="$( eval $* )" > echo "$output" I tried to minimalize the issue: % var="$(aptitude search '~i~n(nvidia)')" % print "$var" ...  but I still loose the spaces.  No variation on quoting helps. Tried with: emulate -L zsh ... thinking it might be some option or other, but no change. > Aside: I don't understand why you eval it. it's ok to write In my function I have nested expansions, so the eval seemed necessary. Bart: > That's not an array variable, it's a string. You need output=( $( ... ) ) for array assignment. ... of course, sorry, I pasted an experimental line by accident. > What does print -r -- "$( eval $* )" show? ... no improvement. % print -r -- "$(aptitude search '~i~n(nvidia)')" ... doesn't fix it either. Seems Marc is using Debian (or derivative) so if he gets it showing properly then I must have some local anomaly. Hey ... just occurs to me now ... the aptitude columns are 'smart' -- the wider your terminal the wider the gap between columns! So, as you intuit Bart, maybe the columnizing can't work without a terminal. -- it's a feature specific to a known width of output. ... yeah, that's it. 'aptitude --disable-columns' ... same output. So this never was a zsh issue. I wish we had some way of killing threads, I'd just nuke this thread as a red herring. --------------8WNJBF0o3QF5EKp00u8acD60 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

On 2024-03-30 09:07, Marc Chantreux wrote:
aptitude search '~i~nnvidia' for short. check it out:

Works fine, thanks.
good:

	output="$( eval $* )"
	echo "$output"
I tried to minimalize the issue:

% var="$(aptitude search '~i~n(nvidia)')"
% print "$var"

...  but I still loose the spaces.  No variation on quoting helps.  Tried with:
emulate -L zsh
... thinking it might be some option or other, but no change.

Aside: I don't understand why you eval it. it's ok to write
In my function I have nested expansions, so the eval seemed necessary. 

Bart:

> That's not an array variable, it's a string.  You need
  output=( $( ... ) )
for array assignment.

... of course, sorry, I pasted an experimental line by accident.

> What does

print -r -- "$( eval $* )"

show?

... no improvement.  

% print -r -- "$(aptitude search '~i~n(nvidia)')"

... doesn't fix it either.

Seems Marc is using Debian (or derivative) so if he gets it showing properly then I must have some local anomaly. 

Hey ... just occurs to me now ... the aptitude columns are 'smart' -- the wider your terminal the wider the gap between columns!  So, as you intuit Bart, maybe the columnizing can't work without a terminal. -- it's a feature specific to a known width of output.

... yeah, that's it.  'aptitude --disable-columns' ... same output.  So this never was a zsh issue.  I wish we had some way of killing threads, I'd just nuke this thread as a red herring.
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