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Fabian Boehm
8deab8d9ce docs/string: Document shorten return value and --quiet 2022-10-04 18:47:37 +02:00
Fabian Boehm
cb28b39b24 string shorten: Make max of 0 mean no shortening
This makes it easier to just slot in `string shorten` wherever,
without having to do a weird "if test $max -gt 0" check.
2022-10-04 18:44:21 +02:00
Fabian Boehm
38b24c2325 docs: Use :doc: role when linking to commands
This makes it so we link to the very top of the document instead of a
special anchor we manually include.

So clicking e.g. :doc:`string <cmds/string>` will link you to
cmds/string.html instead of cmds/string.html#cmd-string.

I would love to have a way to say "this document from the root of the
document path", but that doesn't appear to work, I tried
`/cmds/string`.

So we'll just have to use cmds/string in normal documents and plain
`string` from other commands.
2022-09-24 10:56:43 +02:00
Fabian Boehm
41c22d5e60 Add string shorten
This is essentially the inverse of `string pad`.
Where that adds characters to get up to the specified width,
this adds an ellipsis to a string if it goes over a specific maximum width.
The char can be given, but defaults to our ellipsis string.
("…" if the locale can handle it and "..." otherwise)

If the ellipsis string is empty, it just truncates.

For arguments given via argv, it goes line-by-line,
because otherwise length makes no sense.

If "--no-newline" is given, it adds an ellipsis instead and removes all subsequent lines.

Like pad and `length --visible`, it goes by visible width,
skipping recognized escape sequences, as those have no influence on width.

The default target width is the shortest of the given widths that is non-zero.

If the ellipsis is already wider than the target width,
we truncate instead. This is safer overall, so we don't e.g. move into a new line.
This is especially important given our default ellipsis might be width 3.
2022-09-09 18:49:57 +02:00