kakoune/rc
Aaron Bull Schaefer 3a401f0771 Trim whitespace from spell check word length variable
Due to ambiguity in the POSIX standard, GNU and BSD versions of the `wc`
utility use slightly different whitespace conventions when formatting
their output [1]. When limiting the output to just counting the number
of bytes (as is done by Kakoune when calculating the length of words
for spell check highlighting), the BSD version of `wc -c` has some
additional leading whitespace:

    gnu$ printf %s "test" | wc -c
    4
    bsd$ printf %s "test" | wc -c
           4

This leading whitespace needs to be removed before defining the "region"
to highlight, or `set-option` will not be able to parse the given
`spell_regions` and will complain that there are "not enough elements
in tuple." In other words, the region `1.21+8|Error` on Linux ends up
looking like `1.21+       8|Error` on macOS, which is invalid.

Removing the whitespace could be accomplished in a number of ways, but
using arithmetic expansion [2] is POSIX compliant and does not require
shelling out to another process.

[1]: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/205906/extra-space-with-counted-line-number
[2]: https://mywiki.wooledge.org/ArithmeticExpression
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detection Merge remote-tracking branch 'laelath/provides-requires' 2019-04-25 11:59:42 +01:00
filetype Merge remote-tracking branch 'alexherbo2/crystal' 2019-05-29 20:46:59 +10:00
tools Trim whitespace from spell check word length variable 2019-06-02 20:23:42 -07:00
windowing Fixed if statement in x11 detection 2019-04-08 17:08:35 -07:00