On Feb 25, 2008, at 3:55 PM, Jason LaPier wrote: > This is an extremely trivial point, so don't spend too much time on it > :) I understand the rationale behind the truncation of task > descriptions in 'rake -T' but I find the 80 column limit a little too > condensed for my personal tastes. I whipped up a rake task that > displays tasks and allows me to specify my column limit with an > environment variable. Something like: > $ export RAKE_DESC_COLS=180 > $ rake t > $ rake t[some-pattern] > > The rake task is detailed here: > http://offtheline.net/2008/2/24/rake-and-truncated-task-descriptions > If anyone thinks they might find this useful, I'd be willing to create > a patch (to work with '-T' rather than a task named 't'). Let me know > if you'd prefer using an environment variable or another command-line > switch. Personally, I like the environment variable because I can > stick it in my .bashrc and have different column width depending on > what computer I'm in front of.
I would accept a patch that allowed an environment variable to set the column width for -T. Don't forget unit tests. -- -- Jim Weirich -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Rake-devel mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rake-devel
