On 05-10-2021 09:35:32 +0200, Michał Górny wrote: > On Thu, 2021-09-30 at 09:18 +0200, Fabian Groffen wrote: > > > > Final question, am I understanding correctly that normal lines are not > > > > prefixed with something? Would it be, for consistency, alignment, and > > > > certainty of selecting rows something to use a prefix for those lines > > > > too (assuming they aren't at this point)? > > > > > > I don't know, we've never done that. I suppose it would be possible but > > > it is even more controversial and unlike the proposed changes, it would > > > actually require mangling the process output. > > > > If I remember correctly, Portage already does. In which case, doing > > this (even if it were adding leading spaces) would not be that much > > work? > > > > I'm afraid this is not that simple. You need to account for all escape > sequences that can affect editing already output data including clean > handling of line wrapping. In the end, we'd have to have a complete > detachtty-class terminal emulator inside Portage.
Fair enough, thanks for looking into it. Fabian -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level
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