On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 04:15:56PM +0100, Marco Steinbach wrote: > Baptiste Daroussin wrote on 17.03.2013 16:11: > > On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 08:56:13AM -0600, Warren Block wrote: > >> On Thu, 14 Mar 2013, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > >> > >>> Ilya A. Arkhipov wrote dialog4ports which has just been added into the > >>> ports > >>> tree ports-mgmt/dialog4ports, this is intended to be a replacement for > >>> dialog(1) > >>> designed specifically for the options, in particular for optionsng. > >> My one complaint is that, last I looked, long option descriptions are > >> not supported. We really need this. A maintainer should be concerned > >> with clear option descriptions and not have to restrict their length at > >> the cost of clarity. The user should not have to interpret short or > >> cut-off option descriptions. > > > > pkg-help might help here in the first place, second this could be worked on > > for > > a 0.2 version ;), have you tried anyway long description with this version? > > I > > think they just works correctly, but I haven't tested. > > I tried. They get truncated, instead of overflowing and hosing the layout. > > MfG CoCo >
Ok thanks let's push this feature request for 0.2 then regards, Bapt
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