Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
Paul Eggert wrote:
Matthew Woehlke writes:
Given the remainder of this thread, can one of the maintainers offer
an opinion on whether or not 'unprintf' (also useful for programmers;
again, see rest of the thread) would be a useful addition to
coreutils, or perhaps some other existing GNU project?
I dunno, it sounds fairly specialized. Why not just use a portable
POSIX script instead?
Hmm... yes, probably (thanks for a reply, at least!), but it isn't quite
as simple as writing a script. Yes, you can do it that way, but it isn't
as simple/efficient as it seems at first glance. What I eventually wrote
is intended to work 'well' with things that are mostly-but-not-entirely
ASCII, i.e. it translates 'a' to 'a', and so forth, while translating
non-printing characters into escapes while trying to emit the shortest
possible sequences. You do realize that you can't translate '\0\x30' (a
NUL followed by a printing zero digit) into '\00', right? ;-) 'Shortest
sequence' requires looking ahead.
I should note that I'm still waiting for the someone to step up as
miscutils maintainer, [EMAIL PROTECTED] never got back to me about it.
Hmm... don't think I have time for package maintainership (plus I am
terrible with autotools :-)). Too bad. Does anyone else have time?
Pleeeease?
Seriously, depending on how complicated it is, I might be able to help
out, I'm just not willing to commit to being the primary/only
maintainer. :-)
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Matthew
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