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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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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |
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