Re: [PATCH 5/5 v2] perf timechart: add emphasize option

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>]

* Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net> wrote:

> Em Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 04:15:22PM +0400, Stanislav Fomichev escreveu:
> > > Please give a sample usage command line and a sample output. (the 
> > > highlighting can be done using ASCII escape sequences in the changelog 
> > > as well.)
> > Highlighting is done in the generated SVG, so I can't really show it in
> > the log or documentation. But I added simple example with -e option.
> > 
> > >   -e::
> > >   --emphasize=<duration_nsecs|task_name>::
> > Thanks, added.
> 
> I also wonder how to allocate single letter options here... can we live
> with just --emphasize for now? Wouldn't at some point we maybe want to
> use -e in 'perf timechart' to pick some specific event, and then, to
> make it consistent with the other tools, -e would then be used?

I wanted to raise a similar argument too - so if we don't have to do 
-e then maybe '--grep' would be the better option name?

If it becomes popular then the pattern matching can be improved, 
without having to change the option name and such.

Thanks,

	Ingo