On Fri, 15 Jun 2018 08:40:33 +0000, nspanti-logilab (Nicola Spanti) wrote: > For laziness, this patch could be also useful. It is also better for text > shell beginners, because they may not know that they can combine commands > like that (even if it is basic). Moreover, you can still use `hg serve` in > foreground or use it in background and give the result of `--print-url` to a > non web browser application (but I imagine that there is a way to duplicate > stdout to multiple programs). These are the advantages of this patch that I > see over `--print-url` of https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D3649. It is better > for convenience and require less knowledge for the user, but it is not a > need. https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D3649 was precisely suggested to me > because it can fulfill the functionality of the current patch and is more > versatile.
For laziness, we can add it to `[alias]`. I'm not a fan of adding lots of one-off options since that's the source of man page bloat. How about document the xdg-open example in `hg help serve -v`? _______________________________________________ Mercurial-devel mailing list Mercurial-devel@mercurial-scm.org https://www.mercurial-scm.org/mailman/listinfo/mercurial-devel
