Description is cut off when running rake -T if the description contains dots followed by (white) space

[s2k]

Let's assume the following Rakefile:

desc 'Have dots .. in the description'
task :odd do
  puts "doing soething useful..."
end

When I run rake -Tin the same directory I get this:

rake -T
rake odd  # Have dots .

Notice that the description is cut off after the first dot, even though the description i not particularly long.

However, if there's no space after the two dots (desc 'Have dots ..in the description'), then the complete description is printed:

#rake -T
rake odd  # Have dots ..in the description

Notes:

• When using a non-breaking space (ALT-spacebar on OS X) directly after the dots, the complete description is printed as well. This can be used as a workaround.
• It doesn't matter whether or not the dots appear consecutively in the description. Even with desc 'Have dots . in . the description'the text it cut off.

I consider this cutting off of text from the description a bug, since it even happens in relatively short descriptions and other non-dot descriptions of the same length are not cut off either.

Context:

• OS X 10.11.3 (15D21)
• rvm 1.26.11
• Ruby 2.3.0p0 (2015-12-25 revision 53290) [x86_64-darwin15]
• Rake version 10.5.0

[hsbt]

@s2k Thank you for your reporting. It seems to be defects.