Ryan Schmidt wrote: > I must say I find the new "port search" output format that's in trunk > very hard to read. Before, we had roughly a table, and I could scan > down the left column to read the port names. Now the description is > in roughly the same place -- albeit indented by a couple spaces but > it still interferes with my ability to scan the left column, which is > no longer a column.
I found it unreadable before. The old format used a scheme which did not work with any terminal size. If your window was smaller than the description, it was wrapped to the next line. So there wasn't a clear first column before either, because the descriptions were 'too long'. So I decided to use an output format which will work on any terminal size with at least 80 columns (the often used standard). And with a break at 80 chars also longer descriptions are nice to read. Maybe we could also put the version and categories in a new line, so there will be always the first line of a output block with the port's name and nothing else? Rainer _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-dev
