From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff King Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/2] pretty: support right alignment Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2012 20:27:01 -0400 Message-ID: <20120925002700.GA19586@sigill.intra.peff.net> References: <1348143976-4506-1-git-send-email-pclouds@gmail.com> <1348143976-4506-3-git-send-email-pclouds@gmail.com> <20120920143803.GA9527@lanh> <7v392cd4vi.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vvcf517bs.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Cc: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy , git@vger.kernel.org To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Sep 25 02:27:18 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TGIze-0000ef-1M for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Sep 2012 02:27:18 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751579Ab2IYA1I (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Sep 2012 20:27:08 -0400 Received: from 75-15-5-89.uvs.iplsin.sbcglobal.net ([75.15.5.89]:57455 "EHLO peff.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751238Ab2IYA1H (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Sep 2012 20:27:07 -0400 Received: (qmail 7500 invoked by uid 107); 25 Sep 2012 00:27:34 -0000 Received: from sigill.intra.peff.net (HELO sigill.intra.peff.net) (10.0.0.7) (smtp-auth username relayok, mechanism cram-md5) by peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.84) with ESMTPA; Mon, 24 Sep 2012 20:27:34 -0400 Received: by sigill.intra.peff.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Mon, 24 Sep 2012 20:27:01 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7vvcf517bs.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 01:17:43AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy writes: > > > ... On the other hand, I don't > > really wish to turn pretty format machinery into a full feature text > > layout engine (by ripping of links/lynx?). > > That is very true. We should restrain ourselves and avoid going > overboard piling shiny new toys on a not-so-useful foundation that > is not expressive enough. One feature that is probably much more > needed on the foundation side would be some form of conditional > output, without which built-in output elements like --show-notes > cannot be emulated with --format option. The embedded lua patch series I just posted may interest (or horrify) the both of you: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/206335 -Peff