Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] t: add lib-crlf-messages.sh for messages containing CRLF
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Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>
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- Oct 14, 2020, 13:52 UTC
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> Le 14 oct. 2020 à 09:45, Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> a écrit :
>
> On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 9:20 AM Philippe Blain
> <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Le 12 oct. 2020 à 18:47, Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> a écrit :
>>> This is somewhat onerous to digest and compose. Have you considered
>>> making it more automated and easier to read? Perhaps something like
>>> this:
>>>
>>> create_crlf_ref () {
>>> branch=$1
>>> cat >.crlf-message-$branch.txt &&
>>> sed -n "1,/^$/p" <.crlf-message-$branch.txt | sed "/^$/d" | append_cr >.crlf-subject-$branch.txt &&
>>> sed -n "/^$/,\$p" <.crlf-message-$branch.txt | sed "1d" | append_cr >.crlf-body-$branch.txt &&
>>> ...
>>> }
>>>
>>> create_crlf_refs () {
>>> create_crlf_ref crlf <<-\EOF
>>> Subject first line
>>>
>>> Body first line
>>> Body second line
>>> EOF
>>> ...
>>> }
>>
>> I did not try to do that because I did not think of it.
>> However, I think it's clearer using printf, this way '\n' and '\r'
>> appear clearly on all platforms, whatever editor is in use
>> and whatever settings this editor is using to hide or not hide
>> control characters.
>
> Sorry, I'm not sure I understand what you are saying about editors and
> hiding or not hiding control characters. There are no hidden control
> characters in the example code I posted.
>
> The code I proposed is very explicit about using CRLF terminators. The
> here-doc fed to create_crlf_ref() contains only the normal LF, but
> then create_crlf_ref() explicitly converts those to CRLF by calling
> append_cr().Sorry, I missed that. I'll try to see if I can make it simpler using this approach then.