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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/Zsh/expn.yo | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/Zsh/expn.yo b/Doc/Zsh/expn.yo index 52d4cac9e..f04d6ea17 100644 --- a/Doc/Zsh/expn.yo +++ b/Doc/Zsh/expn.yo @@ -1004,6 +1004,14 @@ calculating the how much of the string it occupies or the overall length of the string. Most printable characters have a width of one unit, however certain Asian character sets and certain special effects use wider characters; combining characters have zero width. +Non-printable characters are arbitrarily counted as zero width; how they +would actually be displayed will vary. + +If the tt(m) is repeated, the character either counts zero (if it has +zero width), else one. For printable character strings this has the +effect of counting the number of glyphs (visibly separate characters), +except for the case where combining characters themselves have non-zero +width (true in certain alphabets). ) item(tt(r:)var(expr)tt(::)var(string1)tt(::)var(string2)tt(:))( As tt(l), but pad the words on the right and insert var(string2) |