On 05-Nov-2014 8:30 am, "David McMackins" <[email protected]> wrote: > > I noticed in the new version of wget that there is a scrolling preview > name of the file being downloaded. > > This is interesting, but it leaves off the last letter before resetting > to the beginning. > Yes I noticed it too, but no one else complained and I was too lazy to fix what seemed like a very minor thing. Now that you've mentioned it, I should probably go back and fix that limit.
> This doesn't affect performance; it's just a little irritating if I'm > actually watching it. Also, a slight pause at the beginning and end of > this loop wouldn't go amiss aesthetically. > A slight pause is a good idea. I'll look into it. Aesthetically speaking, I also mean to add a limit wherein the filename only scrolls if there's atleast 5 columns of scrolling required. I recently witnessed an edge case that required a scroll of only 2 columns and it was irritating. > Happy Hacking, > > David E. McMackins II > Associate, Free Software Foundation (#12889) > > www.mcmackins.org www.delwink.com > www.gnu.org www.fsf.org >
