Re: Unicode range and enumeration support.

2019-12-23 Thread Eli Schwartz
On 12/24/19 12:34 AM, L A Walsh wrote: > I'm not sure what you want me to say about the range you chose, > other than it would be about 128,000 characters. It would be about the > same argument, for or against in using > {241..128169}.  I know you are trying to make some point, but > I'm missing

Re: Unicode range and enumeration support.

2019-12-23 Thread L A Walsh
On 2019/12/23 12:58, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Mon, Dec 23, 2019 at 12:52:00PM -0800, L A Walsh wrote: But it wasn't. It was about generating characters between two characters that were given. In unicode, that would be two code points. Nothing about enumeration. Please give an

Re: Fwd: Don't set $?=130 when discarding the current command line (not run yet) with CTRL-C?

2019-12-23 Thread Clark Wang
Hi Chet, On Fri, Nov 22, 2019 at 12:02 AM Chet Ramey wrote: > On 11/20/19 9:27 PM, Clark Wang wrote: > > It's quite common for people to press CTRL-C to discard the current > command > > line. This is harmless actually for most times except when people include > > $? in $PS1. I also show $? in

Re: Unicode range and enumeration support.

2019-12-23 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, Dec 23, 2019 at 12:52:00PM -0800, L A Walsh wrote: >But it wasn't. It was about generating characters between two > characters that were given. In unicode, that would be two code points. > Nothing about enumeration. Please give an example, with a starting character and an ending

Re: Unicode range and enumeration support.

2019-12-23 Thread L A Walsh
On 2019/12/23 05:20, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Fri, Dec 20, 2019 at 04:35:05PM -0800, L A Walsh wrote:= You can't simply translate $start and $end to single Unicode code point values, enumerate the Unicode characters between those two points, and translate those characters back to the user's

Re: Unicode range and enumeration support.

2019-12-23 Thread L A Walsh
On 2019/12/21 22:38, Eli Schwartz wrote: On 12/20/19 7:35 PM, L A Walsh wrote: ⁰⁴⁵⁶⁷⁸⁹₀₁₂₃₄₅₆₇₈₉ Q.E.D. Is that sufficient proof? It's sufficient proof that you're wrong, yes. If you only knew how to use the tools you have on your machine. Given the discussion was about

Re: Unicode range and enumeration support.

2019-12-23 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Dec 20, 2019 at 04:35:05PM -0800, L A Walsh wrote: > On 2019/12/18 11:46, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > To put it another way: you can write code that determines whether > > an input character $c matches a glob or regex like [Z-a]. (Maybe.) > > > > But, you CANNOT write code to generate all