[SVN] Bundle commit 257

[Brad Miller]

Thanks,

I had seen that sort of thing in Perl before but did not realize it 
also worked with cat.

It also occurred to me that one could just write a help.html file, 
store it in the bundle and simply have the command cat said html.

The Lucida Grande style is a nice touch too.

Brad

On Feb 13, 2005, at 5:57 PM, Allan Odgaard wrote:

> On Feb 13, 2005, at 22:32, Brad Miller wrote:
>
>> Here's an example of a crazy idea I came up with, inspired by Eric's 
>> simple question: What is the Todo bundle for.  I created a simple 
>> command called help. that just echoes a bit of documentation to an 
>> html window.
>
> Ah, a very nice idea, especially since it requires no work on my part! 
> :)
>
>> I'm sure there is a better way to use perl or ruby to output a bunch 
>> of text like this so you don't have to worry about the using a single 
>> quote breaking my simple use of the echo command.
>
> I changed it to using cat with a heredoc, that should solve the 
> problem. In case you do not know these, you basically do:
>
> command <<[-]delimiter
> ...
> delimiter
>
> And command will be executed with “...” as stdin.
>
> If you add - it'll remove indent from the lines, and if you quote 
> delimiter, it won't do normal expansion on the lines, like $VARIABLES 
> (so sort of I should have done that in the Help command :) ).
>
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