From: Oliver Kiddle <okiddle@yahoo.co.uk>
To: Daniel Shahaf <d.s@daniel.shahaf.name>
Cc: zsh-workers@zsh.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] vared: Escape empty elements of arrays
Date: Thu, 21 May 2020 12:57:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52503-1590058644.696341@0c4k.-v5l.VV1-> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200521070539.46a6e9de@tarpaulin.shahaf.local2>
Daniel Shahaf wrote:
> — 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 «''» (two bytes).
For editing arrays, I typically use the following:
alias lvared="IFS=\$'\n\n' vared"
That preserves empty elements from blank lines.
Oliver
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-21 11:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-19 23:54 Daniel Shahaf
2020-05-21 7:05 ` Daniel Shahaf
2020-05-21 10:57 ` Oliver Kiddle [this message]
2020-05-21 16:32 ` Daniel Shahaf
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