But no, 80-column terminals in 2020 isn't “reasonable” any more

Re:But no, 80-column terminals in 2020 isn't “reasonable” an... by moonchild on Saturday May 30, 2020 @12:47AM (#23358551)

Then pipe through

  perl -pe 's/\\\n//g'

Before grepping

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Re:But no, 80-column terminals in 2020 isn't “reasonable” an... by wool_gather on Saturday May 30, 2020 @12:49PM (#23362486)

Turning the entire file into a single line really doesn't seem like a solution. Now

  foo(1, bar, false)
  print("Hello, world")
  flag = true

shows up in your grep output, and not in a particularly helpful rendering.

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Re:But no, 80-column terminals in 2020 isn't “reasonable” an... by moonchild on Saturday May 30, 2020 @02:52PM (#23363596)

No? That just merges continuation lines. So if your original file is

  foo(1, \
      bar, \
      false)
  print("Hello, world")
  flag = \
      true

Then the postprocessed output is:

  foo(1, bar, false)
  print("Hello, world")
  flag = true

And your grep output is just

  foo(1, bar, false)

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Re:But no, 80-column terminals in 2020 isn't “reasonable” an... by wool_gather on Saturday May 30, 2020 @07:10PM (#23365660)

Sorry, what language are we talking about that has escaped line continuations for expressions like that?

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Re:But no, 80-column terminals in 2020 isn't “reasonable” an... by moonchild on Sunday May 31, 2020 @03:07PM (#23371786)

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