[PATCH v2 1/3] highlight: add workaround for empty lines getting filtered out

[Ferry Huberts]

On 21-02-12 14:16, Lukas Fleischer wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 01:13:29PM +0100, Ferry Huberts wrote:
>> From: Ferry Huberts<ferry.huberts at pelagic.nl>
>>
>> Saw this happening on a CentOS 6.2 box
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Ferry Huberts<ferry.huberts at pelagic.nl>
>> ---
>>   filters/syntax-highlighting.sh |    3 ++-
>>   1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/filters/syntax-highlighting.sh b/filters/syntax-highlighting.sh
>> index 6283ce9..c930e07 100755
>> --- a/filters/syntax-highlighting.sh
>> +++ b/filters/syntax-highlighting.sh
>> @@ -42,4 +42,5 @@ EXTENSION="${BASENAME##*.}"
>>   # map Makefile and Makefile.* to .mk
>>   [ "${BASENAME%%.*}" == "Makefile" ]&&  EXTENSION=mk
>>
>> -exec highlight --force -f -I -X -S $EXTENSION 2>/dev/null
>> +# the sed with  is a workaround for empty lines getting filtered out
>> +exec highlight --force -f -I -X -S $EXTENSION 2>/dev/null | sed -r 's/^[[:space:]]*$/\ /'
>
> I'm not sure what you're trying to fix here. The whole output of source
> filters is always embedded in "pre" containers, so there shouldn't be
> any need to replace spaces by " ", really. This rather sounds like
> a bug in your rendering engine...
>

same firefox instance...
I've tried to trace it but didn't come to a conclusive answer


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Ferry Huberts