Hi Bruno,
Thanks for your response.
On Thu, 14 Jan 2010, Bruno Haible wrote:
> This functionality is not yet in gnulib. But I don't think it's general
> enough: Today you want to support tabs. Tomorrow you'll want to support
> line numbers and '\v' characters. Next week someone will want to supp
Hi Joel,
> a wrapper around mbsnwidth to compute screen columns while accounting
> for tabs.
> ...
> Does this duplicate any functionality already offered in
> gnulib? Is it general enough for gnulib?
This functionality is not yet in gnulib. But I don't think it's general
enough: Today you want
a43 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Joel E. Denny
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 20:31:44 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] mbswidth: add new functions to handle tabs
Generalized from code originally written by Paul Eggert for GNU
Bison.
* lib/mbswidth.c (add_column_width): New static inline function.
(mbstwidth)