From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/2] pretty: support right alignment Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2012 01:17:43 -0700 Message-ID: <7vvcf517bs.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Jeff King To: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Sep 23 10:18:58 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 1TFhOw-0006q0-DA for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Sun, 23 Sep 2012 10:18:54 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752722Ab2IWIRs (ORCPT ); Sun, 23 Sep 2012 04:17:48 -0400 Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com ([208.72.237.35]:54383 "EHLO smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752421Ab2IWIRp (ORCPT ); Sun, 23 Sep 2012 04:17:45 -0400 Received: from smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 931D46301; Sun, 23 Sep 2012 04:17:45 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=gCm5EmtxQA00VTUiSolkBttWYpQ=; b=pd6umG eKsIe80bJiBMdHi8DfpJLFRV3LMull7+pxsw0wrV55pS4aZMcTSskYbC8b/R/gQ5 e00O1TLGdxQLtCOzrTG5Mpt4lIl39bRb1R6r5Jn/q3cy6/KKSHDBOQt4VTfxflEj Zx9f2P+4SNAEHxPO8jDXMS0Dosgo/XZFrCZZs= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=RuKFvIX+zGCgXC8k++EmSuQuktj8HYZ/ 6NwmNL2GvR0jrqv/XxmR82Ddnd9uU/H9suyhVwv0GmH3yUwlN5NcXQ+GkEoG/rWc 6xEw/IyJtueu0TOg8ddyLovg3o832FWDEzysnVmfyYHcGiC0HW2KtK1xtWTXeSqN oUt4deRahjg= Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81C716300; Sun, 23 Sep 2012 04:17:45 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [98.234.214.94]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 03ECC62FF; Sun, 23 Sep 2012 04:17:44 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy's message of "Fri, 21 Sep 2012 15:55:13 +0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 2710C720-0557-11E2-9E83-18772E706CDE-77302942!b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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.