Control: tags -1 + moreinfo wontfix
Hi both,
2010-04-23 21:01 Olivier Robert:
I needed some time to understand your explanation. The reason is that I
actually thought that the question mark was turning the autoexpension
*off*. I now realize that it just removes a fixed width.
Am I right?
Yes.
I would find it intuitive if it did both. What do you think?
I don't think that it is good to do this, it would probably have
unintended consequences.
You can see that aptitude is at least
reading the width information by combining %t with some other
autoexpanding column (like %p, for instance).
Could you give me a literal example? (What should I type?)
Daniel Burrows meant '%p %t', I think.
Actually, if you don't want the fields to expand at all, you can use
--disable-columns:
$ aptitude search --disable-columns '~ramd64~n^aptitude$' --display-format
'*%3?t*'
*unstable*
$ aptitude search --disable-columns '~ramd64~n^aptitude$' --display-format '%p
*%3?t*'
aptitude *unstable*
2014-05-12 07:32 Robert Wolf:
Hello,
will be this bug fixed sometime? I use aptitude for searching because of many
search-options and output formating. I would like to specify output format as
non-expandable package name, but it is not possible to disable default
expandable flag.
I think that the above example would work for you, please confirm.
In the meantime I am marking this as +wontfix, because I am not sure if
it's a bug, but in any case I don't see anybody wanting to mess with
this hairy area of column formatting any time soon.
Cheers.
--
Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <[email protected]>
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