Re: [dev] [dmenu] spurious newlines

From: Troels Henriksen <athas_AT_sigkill.dk>
Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2011 09:52:38 +0100

wagnerdm_AT_seas.upenn.edu writes:

> Quoting Connor Lane Smith <cls_AT_lubutu.com>:
>
>> 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?
>
> No reason to prefer one behavior to another here, but I do prefer
> consistency. =)
>
> I maintain yeganesh (see <http://dmwit.com/yeganesh> for more info),
> and profiles have started getting cluttered up with a version with a
> newline and a version without from people upgrading dmenu. However, as
> long as there's a clear policy on which versions will output an extra
> newline it's easy to work around by checking the output of "dmenu -v"
> first.

You could also unconditionally strip trailing newlines, since they will
never be part of a selection proper, but always a terminator.

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