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Date: Thu, 21 May 2020 16:32:34 +0000
From: Daniel Shahaf <d.s@daniel.shahaf.name>
To: zsh-workers@zsh.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] vared: Escape empty elements of arrays
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Oliver Kiddle wrote on Thu, 21 May 2020 12:57 +0200:
> Daniel Shahaf wrote:
> > =E2=80=94 it seems to be impossible for the result of a vared operation=
 to
> > include empty elements.  In particular, editing an array with empty
> > elements in master silently drops them.  With the patch, the elements
> > would become =C2=AB''=C2=BB (two bytes). =20
>=20
> For editing arrays, I typically use the following:
>=20
>   alias lvared=3D"IFS=3D\$'\n\n' vared"
>=20
> That preserves empty elements from blank lines.

Thanks!  I'll see if I can add this to the manual as a tip.  And maybe
emit a warning if an array is edited that has empty elements.