Re: [PATCH 0/3] knotty: Add automatic pager support

["Woolley, Rob" <rob.woolley@windriver.com>]

On 03/12/2015 12:30 PM, Richard Purdie wrote:
> On Thu, 2015-03-12 at 11:25 -0400, Rob Woolley wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Just wanted to send out a ping to see if this enhancement is desired.
>>
>> It scratches an itch for me, but not sure how others feel about it.
>>
>> If there are any changes I can make or extra tests I can run, please let
>> me know.
> Patches 1/2 look good, I've run into the EPIPE issue myself and I have
> noticed the crazy logfile so those can likely be merged.
>
> I'm less sure about 3, letting the user pipe the output to less when
> needed would seem to be the better way to have this rather than adding
> in specific pagination support?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Richard
Sounds cool.  The exception was bugging me, so I'm glad to hear those 
ones look good.

As far as the 3rd patch is concerned: I remember when I first used 
bitbake, I was surprised by the flood of data coming from those 
options.  I would suggest that doing the automatic paging provides a 
better first impression and saves unnecessary typing.

I noticed that lib/image/help.py and lib/bsp/help.py have auto-paging 
for the help command.  I've CC'd Tom Zanussi for his opinion.

Regards,
Rob