From: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: 30053@debbugs.gnu.org, Steve Sprang <steve.sprang@gmail.com>
Subject: [bug#30053] [PATCH 1/3] Improve appearance of tabular output.
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2018 15:56:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180112155612.5998bc36@scratchpost.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878td4nksy.fsf@gnu.org>
Hi Ludo,
Hi Steve,
terminals support setting tab stops. The user could (and arguably should) just set them (see tabs(1). Example invocation: "tabs 1,20,25").
> I have a disappointing explanation I’m afraid: the reason columns look
> this way is because they are tab-separated, which in turn makes it easy
> to filter with ‘cut’:
Also, they are columns in a TABle.
There's also "column -t" which one can pipe the output to, which will take care of autosizing the columns.
It's typical of UNIX tools that they prefer machine readability to usability. There are always small tools like the ones above one can use (either before the invocation or after the invocation) to make output more usable.
That said, Steve even retains the tabs, so both use cases would be supported. The only cost is that with the patch there's a lot of whitespace printed in columns that's actually not in the database at all. But that's OK I think.
Also, "guix package -A" (even before the patch) eats up all my 8 GB of RAM on guix master and then my computer hangs. What's up with that? (I tried it 3 times now - it's reproducible) O_o
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-01-12 14:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-01-09 22:34 [bug#30053] [PATCH 1/3] Improve appearance of tabular output Steve Sprang
2018-01-09 22:37 ` [bug#30053] [PATCH 2/3] " Steve Sprang
2018-01-09 22:37 ` [bug#30053] [PATCH 3/3] " Steve Sprang
2018-01-11 21:32 ` [bug#30053] [PATCH 1/3] " Ludovic Courtès
2018-01-11 23:32 ` Steve Sprang
2018-01-12 13:28 ` Roel Janssen
2018-01-13 19:59 ` Steve Sprang
2018-01-16 14:16 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-01-16 23:56 ` Steve Sprang
2021-07-15 5:39 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2021-07-15 17:36 ` [bug#30053] [PATCH 1/3 v2] " Maxim Cournoyer
2021-07-15 20:15 ` bug#30053: [PATCH 1/3] " Maxim Cournoyer
2021-07-21 16:56 ` [bug#30053] " Ludovic Courtès
2021-07-21 21:43 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2021-07-15 22:05 ` Sarah Morgensen via Guix-patches via
2021-07-16 1:25 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2018-01-12 14:56 ` Danny Milosavljevic [this message]
2018-01-12 15:26 ` Leo Famulari
2018-01-13 13:47 ` Ludovic Courtès
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