On Feb 25, 2005, at 9:42 PM, Paul Smith wrote:
I would love this feature. I like the way Eclipse allows you to do this. Copied from the Java->Appearance tab of Eclipse preferences:
"Compression pattern (e.g givin a package name 'org.eclipse.jdt' pattern '.' will compress it to '..jdt' '0' to 'jdt', '1~' to 'o~.e~jdt')"
We should probably have different pattern specificier chars, and keep the exitsing syntax and meaning.
I was leaning toward abbreviating to fit the width. There is some precedent for this in the floating point conversion patterns with will start dropping elements like leading zeros or "e" or "+" to fit within the specified width. If the width is less than the logger name, you will have already started dropping info. We'd just be improving the discard method.
Currently, "%c{1}" or "%logger{1}" would get you "jdt", "%c{2}" would get you "eclipse.jdt", so the first parameter a kind of compression specifier. We could just expand the acceptable contents of the brace:
"%c{1.}" -> "o.e.jdt"
"%c{2.}" -> "or.ec.jdt"
"%c{1~}" -> "o~.e~.jdt"
"%c{.}" or "%c{0.}" -> "..jdt"
"%c{1.*.}" -> "o.eclipse.jdt"I think abbreviating to fit width would be substantially simpler to implement and explain, however.
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