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From: Sebastian Gniazdowski <sgniazdowski@gmail.com>
To: zsh-workers@zsh.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Index of element after width of characters
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2015 20:55:41 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKc7PVCo7PtDr_32+M9sA8fR21MpQ+GnPD+RiY3GSpkZOYQ+jg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKc7PVC4LFGnBJau3gWuws3bTgc+zcnEE+o-B8ZmKEEWa8Kpog@mail.gmail.com>

On 27 October 2015 at 18:18, Sebastian Gniazdowski
<sgniazdowski@gmail.com> wrote:
> I then noticed useful (m) flag that returns widths. Scrolling can be
> done this way but basically it requires to output characters one by
> one.

To be exact. Suppose you want to display $COLUMNS wide characters, and
skip N characters from beginning of the string. This can be done with
(m) flag by iterating over every char and detecting when to start
displaying, and when to stop displaying. With (x) and (y) flags this
will be much simpler.

Best regards,
Sebastian Gniazdowski


  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-10-27 19:56 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 [this message]
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
2015-10-29  9:42                 ` Peter Stephenson

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