From: Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: Guix Devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Guix search, colors and INSIDE_EMACS
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2020 17:44:30 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <875zfwc4up.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871rqkj6pw.fsf@gnu.org>
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Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
>> - Leave colors when INSIDE_EMACS is set.
>
> Like Ricardo wrote before, this is not desirable for shell-mode. Also,
> all or most GNU command-line tools behave that way.
There might be a misunderstanding because M-x shell supports ANSI
terminal colors explicitly. Why disable them then?
Many command line tools print colors properly in M-x shell. I think
it's a misfeature to disable them in Emacs; I don't see any benefits.
>> - Disable pager hint and display all search results when INSIDE_EMACS is set.
>
> I have a preference for something that doesn’t fill the screen,
> especially since the last answers (those that remain visible without
> scrolling) are the least relevant. Emacs makes it easier to scroll up
> and search, but still.
>
> Thoughts?
I find that printing just 1 result to be of little use in general.
So between printing all results and just 1, I have a preference for
printing all results. But there are other solutions, see below.
Note that `less` does not work well neither in Eshell nor in M-x shell.
Which is what started this discussion ;)
Another option for M-x shell is to do
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
guix search foo | cat
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
which gives us the same result as the patch I've sent, with more typing :(
Eshell has a "smart-scrolling" mode (the point stays at the first prompt
until validated).
For M-x shell, going to the first result is just one keypress away.
Another option would be to reverse the order of the result: print the
most relevant result last, so that neither Eshell nor M-x shell have to
scroll back.
Thoughts?
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Pierre Neidhardt
https://ambrevar.xyz/
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Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-02-04 15:23 Guix search, colors and INSIDE_EMACS Pierre Neidhardt
2020-02-04 16:12 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2020-02-04 16:37 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-02-04 16:51 ` zimoun
2020-02-04 19:16 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2020-02-04 19:18 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2020-02-06 9:51 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-02-13 9:30 ` zimoun
2020-02-13 13:41 ` Alex Griffin
2020-02-13 14:22 ` zimoun
2020-02-14 7:17 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-02-14 7:21 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-02-17 7:51 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-02-17 7:54 ` zimoun
2020-02-17 13:42 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-02-17 18:33 ` zimoun
2020-02-24 10:19 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-02-24 16:22 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-02-24 16:44 ` Pierre Neidhardt [this message]
2020-02-24 17:11 ` zimoun
2020-02-24 20:54 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-02-24 21:32 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-02-24 16:53 ` zimoun
2020-02-05 15:13 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-02-06 9:56 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-02-07 21:33 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-02-08 16:34 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-02-04 16:40 ` zimoun
2020-02-10 19:36 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-02-10 23:24 ` zimoun
2020-02-11 6:22 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-02-11 14:11 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-02-11 14:19 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-02-11 15:14 ` zimoun
2020-02-11 16:37 ` Jack Hill
2020-02-11 18:09 ` zimoun
2020-02-11 19:04 ` Jack Hill
2020-02-12 13:39 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-02-12 16:30 ` zimoun
2020-02-13 9:35 ` zimoun
2020-02-24 16:18 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-02-24 16:45 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-02-24 16:59 ` zimoun
2020-02-24 16:50 ` zimoun
2020-02-11 15:11 ` zimoun
2020-02-11 15:06 ` zimoun
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