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The Lounge What is on Your Mind? Should we use CODE Tags for terminal input and output? Post 302909664 by rbatte1 on Friday 18th of July 2014 06:33:31 AM
Old 07-18-2014
It's also important because multiple spaces will get compressed in 'normal' text, but are respected within code tags.

This is an "X" with fifteen spaces, then another "X" in normal text:-
X X

This is an "X" with fifteen spaces, then another "X" in code tags:-
Code:
X               X

It's much better for clarity of indented code and for crucial fixed-width data.


Thanks for asking Smilie
Robin
 

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ul(1)							      General Commands Manual							     ul(1)

NAME
ul - do underlining SYNOPSIS
terminal] [name ...] DESCRIPTION
reads the named files (or standard input if none are given) and translates occurrences of underscores to the sequence which indicates underlining for the terminal in use, as specified by the environment variable The option overrides the terminal type specified in the envi- ronment. The terminfo(4) file corresponding to is read to determine the appropriate sequences for underlining. If the terminal is inca- pable of underlining, but is capable of a standout mode, the standout mode is used instead. If the terminal can overstrike, or handles underlining automatically, degenerates to If the terminal cannot underline, underlining is ignored. The option causes to indicate underlining onto by a separate line containing appropriate dashes this is useful when you want to look at the underlining present in an output stream on a CRT terminal. EXTERNAL INFLUENCES
International Code Set Support Single- and multi-byte character code sets are supported with the exception that multi-byte-character file names are not supported. WARNINGS
usually outputs a series of backspaces and underlines intermixed with the text to indicate underlining. No attempt is made to optimize the backward motion. AUTHOR
was developed by the University of California, Berkeley. FILES
terminal capability files SEE ALSO
col(1), man(1), nroff(1). ul(1)
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