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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/2] pretty: support right alignment
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2012 09:40:49 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7v392cd4vi.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120920143803.GA9527@lanh> (Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy's message of "Thu, 20 Sep 2012 21:38:03 +0700")

Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:

> And this is a for-fun patch that adds %| to right align everything
> after that. I'm ignoring problems with line wrapping, i18n and so
> on. "%C+%h %s%|%d" looks quite nice. I'm not sure how much useful it
> is beyond --oneline though. It looks something like this
> ...
> [oneline output ellided]
> ...

I think this is a great feature at the conceptual level, and you
know "but" is coming ;-).

 - Shouldn't it be "everything from there until the end of the
   current line" than "everything after that"?

 - How is the display width determined and is it fixed once it gets
   computed?

 - How does this interact with the wrapped output?  Should it?

 - I am wondering if somebody ever want to do this with a follow-up
   patch:

	Left %h%|Center %cd%|Right %ad

   Is %| a sensible choice for "flush right"?  I am wondering if it
   makes more sense to make %|, %< and %> as "multi-column
   introducer" (the example defines output with three columns) that
   also tells how text inside each column is flushed inside the
   column, e.g.

	%>col 1 right flushed%|col 2 centered%< col 3 left flushed

   or something like that (we may want explicit "column width"
   specifiers if we were to do this kind of thing).

  reply	other threads:[~2012-09-20 16:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-19 11:52 [PATCH] log --oneline: put decoration at the end of the line Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2012-09-19 18:20 ` Jeff King
2012-09-19 19:57   ` Junio C Hamano
2012-09-19 20:05     ` Jeff King
2012-09-19 23:34     ` Junio C Hamano
2012-09-19 23:42       ` Jeff King
2012-09-20  0:18         ` Junio C Hamano
2012-09-20 10:43         ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2012-09-20 12:26           ` [PATCH 0/2] New pretty format color specifiers %C+ and %C- Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2012-09-20 12:26             ` [PATCH 1/2] pretty: share code between format_decoration and show_decorations Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2012-09-20 12:26             ` [PATCH 2/2] pretty: support placeholders %C+ and %C- Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2012-09-20 14:38               ` [PATCH 3/2] pretty: support right alignment Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2012-09-20 16:40                 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2012-09-21  8:55                   ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2012-09-21 17:46                     ` Junio C Hamano
2012-09-23  8:17                     ` Junio C Hamano
2012-09-25  0:27                       ` Jeff King
2012-09-21 13:03                   ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2012-09-20 16:47               ` [PATCH 2/2] pretty: support placeholders %C+ and %C- Junio C Hamano
2012-09-20 17:47                 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-09-21  8:36                   ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy

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