Re: hide more output

[Bengt Richter <bokr@bokr.com>]

Hi,

On +2020-05-06 16:25:19 +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> skribis:
> 
> > While I’m sure many of us have gotten used to this I think we don’t need
> > to show quite as much information.  My proposal is to hide the
> > “downloading from <really long URL>” by default, because the URLs don’t
> > really matter to users.  We can unhide that bit of info when slightly
> > higher verbosity is requested.
> 
> I think it’s nice to see the URLs, or rather the host part thereof, when
> using multiple substitute servers.  But perhaps we can still make that
> less verbose?
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> Ludo’.
> 

Just so I don't have to re-run something very timeconsuming to see the verbose version.

IOW, if there isn't one, I think there ought to be a default detailed log
produced (while teeing through optional verbosity/brevity filters or the user's grep.

It might be nice to have an option to menumonic-tag-name the log for easier
later access and review.

-- 
Regards,
Bengt Richter