[mdlug] printline - print a line of text within fields defined by column location

[Jeff Hanson]

First bug!

Whitespace padding is generated using this technique:
http://stackoverflow.com/a/17030976

Apparently printf %b is not entirely portable between Dash and Bash, at
least when truncating a string to zero-length.  It originally was %s but I
changed it, possibly via accidental search and replace when messing around
with wide characters.  It made no sense to use %b for that anyways.  I
changed it back so the new version in git should work Bash now.

On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 12:06 AM, Michael Corral <micorral at comcast.net>
wrote:

> 2014-12-01, Monsieur Jeff Hanson a ecrit:
>
>  https://github.com/jhansonxi/printline
>>
>> This is a wrapper around a function I wrote to make it easier to print
>> complex data in a terminal with some auto-adjustment for terminal width.
>>
>
> I tried some of the examples, here's what the output looked like
> on my Fedora 20 x86_64 system with bash in an mrxvt terminal:
>
> http://i.imgur.com/9f8PBjL.png
>
> Maybe I'm completely misunderstanding what your script is supposed
> to do, but should those column numbers be there? From the description
> in Examples section, I thought ./printline -W "+" would print just
> plus signs and nothing else. Again, maybe I've misunderstood
> something.
>
> Michael
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