Re: readme.gentoo.eclass: use echo -e instead of plain echo (Was: Re: [gentoo-dev] readme.gentoo.eclass: Add a DISABLE_AUTOFORMATTING variable=

[Pacho Ramos <pacho@gentoo.org>]

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El lun, 28-01-2013 a las 14:37 +0800, Ben de Groot escribió:
> On 28 January 2013 12:37, Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > On Sunday 27 January 2013 13:21:27 Pacho Ramos wrote:
> >> The problem is that it doesn't work so well. If I have the following at
> >> src_prepare (for example):
> >> src_prepare() {
> >>         DOC_CONTENTS="You must create a symlink rom /etc/splash/tuxonice
> >> to the theme you want tuxonice to use, e.g.: \n
> >>                       # ln -sfn /etc/splash/emergence /etc/splash/tuxonice \n"
> >> ...
> >>
> >> and I handle ${DOC_CONTENTS} with quotes, it will end writing that tabs
> >> also in generated file as the contents of the variable will be put
> >> as-is. On the other hand, if I don't put it between quotes
> >
> > forcibly normalizing whitespace for all callers is wrong imo (as is sending it
> > through `fmt`).  if the caller gave you content to write, it should write it.
> > if the caller didn't want tabs, it shouldn't have used it in the first place.
> > -mike
> 
> I've started using this eclass, but with README files, not the variable,
> because this is currently the only way I can make sure it honours my
> formatting.
> 

Couldn't it be covered if "echo -e" was used (even with fmt) and you,
then, control formatting with some of the sequences it allows (they are
shown in its man page)?

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