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From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
To: Zsh hackers list <zsh-workers@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Index of element after width of characters
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2015 16:07:16 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <151028160716.ZM1300@torch.brasslantern.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151028155943.14acea0b@pwslap01u.europe.root.pri>

On Oct 28,  3:59pm, Peter Stephenson wrote:
}
} Mikael's right, actually --- this is an indexing problem and more
} consistently done with subscripts.  It should actually be simpler than
} the existing code for space-delimited words in scalars.

Doesn't subscripting already treat multi-byte characters as single
positions in strings?  The one strangeness may be characters that
have zero disply width.

So I take it that what we need is subscripting that counts display
widths rather than character widths.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-10-28 23:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-10-27 17:18 Sebastian Gniazdowski
2015-10-27 19:41 ` Mikael Magnusson
2015-10-27 19:55 ` Sebastian Gniazdowski
2015-10-27 21:20 ` Bart Schaefer
2015-10-28  7:46   ` Sebastian Gniazdowski
2015-10-28  7:54     ` Sebastian Gniazdowski
2015-10-28 11:38       ` Sebastian Gniazdowski
2015-10-28 13:31         ` Mikael Magnusson
2015-10-28 15:46           ` Sebastian Gniazdowski
2015-10-28 15:59             ` Peter Stephenson
2015-10-28 16:37               ` Sebastian Gniazdowski
2015-10-28 23:07               ` Bart Schaefer [this message]
2015-10-29  9:42                 ` Peter Stephenson

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