On 2017-01-06 13:44, Dan Sommers wrote: > On Sat, 07 Jan 2017 00:03:37 +1100, Steve D'Aprano wrote: > > what do we call the vertical and horizontal line elements? I want > > to make them configurable, which means the user has to be able to > > pass an argument that specifies them ... > > pstree(1) calls them "line drawing characters,"
I second the use of "drawing characters" as I've seen them described as "line-drawing characters", "box drawing characters", or "tree drawing characters" depending on the context. Wikipedia seems to favor "box drawing characters" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box-drawing_character Takes me back to my ascii-art days on BBSes. :-) -tkc -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
