Hi, Eric Kow <[email protected]> writes: > Unfortunately, this makes the UI a lot chattier, which I think is probably > more annoying than helpful.
> Here's one example use: If you darcs get /tmp/blah (some missing directory), > this is what Darcs currently says and here's what a keyword help mechanism > would provide. [snip the outputs] I think the downside of this is that you do not actually reduce chattines: you just shorten the interludes. You print exactly as many messages as you do now -- some of them may become shorter, but that's all. Whether that makes them easier to ignore is up to debate, but I am not convinced. On the other hand, we already do have this mechanism, more or less. Things like darcs help environment have been around for a while. In general, I don't think that non-interactive chattiness is a major issue. The problem is that the notice only works a few times: users learn to ignore those quickly. A notice with familiar shape will have no effect, other than adding noise. Making the notices shape-uniform may actually reduce their effect (since they all start to look more alike at a glance). > 4. What are our alternatives? One option that comes to mind is to instead print out the relevant help text, and add a mechanism for the user to acknowledge the message and suppress it for future, probably by abusing the defaults mechanism. Along the lines of: ALL suppress-hints ALL suppress-sources-warning Not sure which is worse, anyway. Yours, Petr -- id' Ash = Ash; id' Dust = Dust; id' _ = undefined _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
