IDEAS: txtShear list options

[TAbdiukov]

The following options to consider

• dir/w style output
• Listing with newlines (like dir/b)

[TAbdiukov]

Conclusion: (previously) decided against it, as currently txtShear list outputs using a simple syntax.

Since pipe character is not allowed by Windows, a font name with a "|" character would generally be unlikely. Therefore, the following output syntax is used,

font1|font2|font3|...|font{n-1}|fontn}|

Which optimally addresses both concerns,

• The output is even more optimal than dir/w, space-wise, as pipe character takes only one character in width (in contrast to to \t)
• "Listing with newlines" (dir/b) risks having some output being cut off by a limited buffer, which is well mitigated by syntax used. If "Listing with newlines" is absolutely required, then it is possible to simply find&replace all | characters with \r\n. \r\n will also be present after the last entry

Resolved

[TAbdiukov]

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