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NAME

ansifold - fold command handling ANSI terminal sequences

SYNOPSIS

ansifold [ options ]

-w#   --width=#                Folding width (default 72)
      --boundary=word|space    Fold on word boundary
      --padding[=#]            Padding to margin space
      --padchar=_              Default padding character
      --ambiguous=narrow|wide  Unicode ambiguous character handling
-p    --paragraph              Print extra newline
      --separate=string        Set separator string (default newline)
-n    --nonewline              Same as --separate ''
      --linebreak=mode         Line-break mode (all, runin, runout, none)
      --runin                  Run-in width (default 4)
      --runout                 Run-out width (default 4)
-s    --smart                  Same as --boundary=word --linebreak=all
-x[#] --expand[=#]             Expand tabs
      --tabstop=n              Tab-stop position (default 8)
      --tabhead=char           Tab-head character (default space)
      --tabspace=char          Tab-space character (default space)
      --tabstyle=style         Tab expansion style (shade, dot, symbol)
-h    --help                   Show help message
-v    --version                Show version

VERSION

Version 1.1101

DESCRIPTION

ansifold is a fold(1) compatible command utilizing Text::ANSI::Fold module, which enables to handle ANSI terminal sequences.

FOLD BY WIDTH

ansifold folds lines in 72 column by default. Use option -w to change the folding width.

$ ansifold -w132

Single field is used repeatedly for the same line.

With option --padding, remained columns are filled by padding character, space by default, or specified by optional value like --padding=_. Default padding character can be set by --padchar option.

ansifold handles Unicode multi-byte characters properly. Option --ambiguous takes wide or narrow and it specifies the visual width of Unicode ambiguous characters.

MULTIPLE WIDTH

Unlike the original fold(1) command, multiple numbers can be specified.

$ LANG=C date | ansifold -w 3,1,3,1,2 | cat -n
     1  Wed
     2   
     3  Dec
     4   
     5  19

With multiple fields, unmatched part is discarded as in the above example. So you can truncate lines by putting comma at the end of single field.

ansifold -w80,

Option -w80, is equivalent to -w80,0. Zero width is ignored when seen as a final number, but not ignored otherwise.

NEGATIVE WIDTH

Negative number fields are discarded.

$ LANG=C date | ansifold -w 3,-1,3,-1,2
Wed
Dec
19

If the final width is negative, it is not discarded but takes all the rest instead. So next commands do the same thing.

$ colrm 7 10

$ ansifold -nw 6,-4,-1

Option --width -1 does nothing effectively. Using it with --expand option implements ANSI/Unicode aware expand(1) command.

$ ansifold --expand --width -1

This can be written as this.

$ ansifold -xw-1

NUMBERS

Number description is handled by Getopt::EX::Numbers module, and consists of start, end, step and length elements. For example,

$ echo AABBBBCCCCCCDDDDDDDDEEEEEEEEEE | ansifold -w 2:10:2

is equivalent to:

$ echo AABBBBCCCCCCDDDDDDDDEEEEEEEEEE | ansifold -w 2,4,6,8,10

and produces output like this:

AA
BBBB
CCCCCC
DDDDDDDD
EEEEEEEEEE

SEPARATOR/TERMINATOR

Option -n eliminates newlines between columns.

$ LANG=C date | ansifold -w 3,-1,3,-1,2 -n
WedDec19

Option --separate set separator string.

$ echo ABCDEF | ansifold --separate=: -w 1,0,1,0,1,-1
A::B::C:DEF

Option -n is a short-cut for --separate ''.

Option --paragraph or -p print extra newline after each lines. This is convenient when a paragraph is made up of single line, like microsoft word document.

LINE BREAKING

Line break adjustment is supported for ASCII word boundaries. As for Japanese, more complicated prohibition processing is performed. Use option -s to enable everything.

--boundary=word|space

This option prohibit breaking line in the middle of ASCII/Latin word. Context of word is defined by option value; word means alpha-numeric sequence, while space means simply non-space printables.

--linebreak=all|ruunin|runout|none

Option --linebreak takes a value of all, runin, runout or none. Default value is none.

When --linebreak option is enabled, if the cut-off text start with space or prohibited characters (e.g. closing parenthesis), they are ran-in at the end of current line as much as possible.

If the trimmed text end with prohibited characters (e.g. opening parenthesis), they are ran-out to the head of next line, provided it fits to maximum width.

--runin=width, --runout=width

Maximum width of run-in/run-out characters are defined by --runin and --runout option. Default values are 4.

--smart, -s

Option --smart (or simply -s) set both --boundary=word and --linebreak=all, and enables all smart text formatting capability.

Use option --boundary=space if you want the command to behave more like -s option of fold(1) command.

TAB EXPANSION

--expand

Option --expand (or -x) enables tab character expansion.

$ ansifold --expand

Takes optional number for tabstop and it precedes to --tabstop option.

$ ansifold -x4w-1

--tabhead, --tabspace

Each tab character is converted to tabhead and following tabspace characters (both are space by default). They can be specified by --tabhead and --tabspace option. If the option value is longer than single characger, it is evaluated as unicode name. Next example makes tab character visible keeping text layout.

$ ansifold --expand --tabhead="MEDIUM SHADE" --tabspace="LIGHT SHADE"

--tabstyle

Option --tabstyle allow to set --tabhead and --tabspace characters at once according to the given style name. Select from dot, symbol or shade. Styles are defined in Text::ANSI::Fold library.

$ ansifold --expand --tabstyle=shade

FILES

~/.ansifoldrc

Start-up file. See Getopt::EX::Module for format.

INSTALL

CPANMINUS

$ cpanm App::ansifold
or
$ curl -sL http://cpanmin.us | perl - App::ansifold

SEE ALSO

ansifold

Text::ANSI::Fold

Text::ANSI::Fold::Util

Getopt::EX::Numbers

https://www.w3.org/TR/jlreq/ Requirements for Japanese Text Layout, W3C Working Group Note 11 August 2020

AUTHOR

Kazumasa Utashiro

LICENSE

Copyright 2018- Kazumasa Utashiro

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.