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On 05-10-2021 09:35:32 +0200, Michał Górny wrote: |
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> On Thu, 2021-09-30 at 09:18 +0200, Fabian Groffen wrote: |
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> > > > Final question, am I understanding correctly that normal lines are not |
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> > > > prefixed with something? Would it be, for consistency, alignment, and |
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> > > > certainty of selecting rows something to use a prefix for those lines |
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> > > > too (assuming they aren't at this point)? |
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> > > I don't know, we've never done that. I suppose it would be possible but |
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> > > it is even more controversial and unlike the proposed changes, it would |
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> > > actually require mangling the process output. |
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> > If I remember correctly, Portage already does. In which case, doing |
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> > this (even if it were adding leading spaces) would not be that much |
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> > work? |
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> I'm afraid this is not that simple. You need to account for all escape |
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> sequences that can affect editing already output data including clean |
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> handling of line wrapping. In the end, we'd have to have a complete |
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> detachtty-class terminal emulator inside Portage. |
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Fair enough, thanks for looking into it. |
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Fabian |
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Fabian Groffen |
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Gentoo on a different level |