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author | pgen <p.gen.progs@gmail.com> | 2018-04-07 22:19:35 +0200 |
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committer | pgen <p.gen.progs@gmail.com> | 2018-04-07 23:39:14 +0200 |
commit | 4009bd3b579a1e182b24e7739f0d5e8ac84ba411 (patch) | |
tree | 37f3bcf76690bed60b70454f6b5533a9dc6086b9 /smenu.1 | |
parent | 871d3ddd92624f3ed4e385cec6c83b880f8f0c67 (diff) |
Improve the features of the option -g (gutter)
Diffstat (limited to 'smenu.1')
-rw-r--r-- | smenu.1 | 35 |
1 files changed, 23 insertions, 12 deletions
@@ -23,7 +23,8 @@ and outputs the selection to stdout. [\fB-1\fP \fIregex\fP [\fIATTR\fP]] \ [\fB-2\fP \fIregex\fP [\fIATTR\fP]] ... \ [\fB-5\fP \fIregex\fP [\fIATTR\fP]] \\ - [\fB-g\fP] [\fB-q\fP] [\fB-W\fP \fIbytes\fP] [\fB-L\fP \fIbytes\fP] \\ + [\fB-g\fP [\fIstring\fP]] [\fB-q\fP] \ +[\fB-W\fP \fIbytes\fP] [\fB-L\fP \fIbytes\fP] \\ [\fB-T\fP [\fIseparator\fP]] [\fB-P\fP [\fIseparator\fP]] [\fB-p\fP] \\ [\fB-V\fP] [\fB-x\fP|\fB-X\fP \fItype\fP [\fIword\fP] \fIdelay\fP] \\ [input_file] @@ -769,18 +770,28 @@ Examples of possible attributes are: .fi \fI\\u\fP sequences can be used in the pattern. -.IP \fB-g\fP -Replaces the blank after each words in column or tabular mode by a -vertical bar \fB|\fP. Some users may find the output more readable -with it. +.IP \fB-g\fP [\fIstring\fP] +Replaces the blank after each words in column or tabular mode by a column +separator. + +This separator is extracted from the \fIstring\fP argument and each +of its (multibyte) character is used one after the other to fill +the gutter. + +If there are more columns that gutter characters then the last character +is used for the remaining columns. + +When not given, the separator defaults to a vertical bar \fI|\fP (or a +full height vertical bar if the locale is set to UTF-8). + +Each character can be given in normal or \fI\\u\fP form in the +\fIstring\fP argument. + +Example: "\f(CB|- \fP" will allow to separate the first two column +with '\f(CB|\fP', then '\f(CB-\fP' will be used and '\f(CB \fP' will +separate the remaining columns if any. .IP \fB-q\fP -Prevents the scroll bar display. -Useful when all the input words can be -displayed without the need of scrolling. -By default the scroll bar is always displayed when there is more than -one line. -An absence of cursor in it gives a visual indication that all the input -words are there. +Prevents the display of the scroll bar. .IP "\fB-W\fP \fIbytes\fP" This option can be used to specify the characters (or multibyte sequences) which will be used to delimit the input words. |