Greetings. On Wed, 02 Oct 2013 21:01:26 +0200 "Roberto E. Vargas Caballero" <[email protected]> wrote: > > I feel like this functionality could be removed from st in favor of > > "script" even though it would only remove a few lines of code at > > best. What is this lists opinion on this matter? > > Well, I added this functionality when I began to colaborate in st, and > it was very useful for me and Christoph because you could see the > sequences a program was wnitten inmediatly with something like: > > st -o - | cat -v -u (cat -v harmful, use better vis ;)).
That’s what it’s for and that’s how it should be. > So, I think that althouh it was very useful and it takes only > a few of lines, it is not necessary now, and complicates the > manual page adding a option that usual users is not going to > need. > > So I vote positive to this change (the hack is so easy that > I am pretty sure if we remove it, we will always can revert > the commit easily). No, stop that road. Suckless is not about end users. Always keep the features to easily debug applications. ‐o is necessary. Otherwise you have a *dependency* on script to debug st. If such a dependency is kept away by just having some lines of code, then it’s worth it. Absolutely no to remove this feature and I will push the feature into st at all cost. Sincerely, Christoph Lohmann
