From de2bce40eed0f462643004fdf5ec560223123974 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: emma <emma@tebibyte.media>
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2023 15:35:38 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] better deleting

---
 en | 14 ++++++++------
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/en b/en
index b4526f9..3728c33 100755
--- a/en
+++ b/en
@@ -12,13 +12,13 @@ exec >&2 </dev/tty
 
 if test -z "$1"; then
 	printf "Usage: %s file...\n" "$argv0" 1>&2
-	exit 1
+	exit 64 # sysexits.h(3) EX_USAGE
 fi
 
 if ! command -v mktemp >/dev/null 2>&1
 then
 	printf "%s: mktemp(1): Missing dependency." "$argv0"
-	exit 1
+	exit 69 # sysexits.h(3) EX_UNAVAILABLE
 fi
 
 help="$(printf "Commands:\n\
@@ -39,13 +39,13 @@ en(1) Copyright (c) 2023 Emma Tebibyte\n")"
 while test -n "$1"; do
 	content="$(cat "$1")"
 	file="$(printf "%s\n" "$1" | tr -d '/')"
+	temp_highlight="$(mktemp -t "XXXXX$file")"
 
 	# use bat for syntax highlighting if it’s available, but remove the frills
 	if command -v bat >/dev/null
 	then
 		# there has to be a temp file for writing the highlighted text to
 		syntax_h() {
-			temp_highlight="$(mktemp -t "XXXXX$file")"
 			printf "%s\n" "$1" >"$temp_highlight"
 			bat -pp --color always "$temp_highlight"
 		}
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ while test -n "$1"; do
 				;;
 			"a")
 				read -r append
-				content="$(printf "%s\n%s" "$content" "$append")"
+				content="$content$append"
 				;;
 			"c")
 				clear
@@ -77,8 +77,10 @@ while test -n "$1"; do
 				else
 					for line in $(printf "%s\n" "$args" | sed 's/,/\n/g')
 					do
-						del="$(printf "%s\n" "$content" | head -n "$line" | tail -n 1)"
-						content="$(printf "%s\n" "$content" | sed -n "/$del/!p")"
+						content="$(printf "%s\n" "$content" |\
+							awk -v l="$line" 'NR == l {next} {print}')"
+						#del="$(printf "%s\n" "$content" | head -n "$line" | tail -n 1)"
+						#content="$(printf "%s\n" "$content" | sed -n "/$del/!p")"
 					done
 				fi
 				;;