News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on But no, 80-column terminals in 2020 isn't “reasonable” any more. Parent comment

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