Re: [dev] [dmenu] spurious newlines

From: Connor Lane Smith <cls_AT_lubutu.com>
Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2011 09:39:20 +0100

Hey,

On 6 December 2011 09:35, <wagnerdm_AT_seas.upenn.edu> wrote:
> In 4.4 (and 4.4.1), dmenu starting printing spurious newlines. The problem
> seems to be a switch from fputs to puts; here's a patch that reverts this
> change.

The change was intentional. The logic being that lines go in and a
line comes out... Rather than some fragment of a line. (dmenu strips
newlines when reading, and restores them when printing.) Is there a
reason why you preferred the earlier behaviour?

Thanks,
cls
Received on Tue Dec 06 2011 - 09:39:20 CET