On 11/12/2019 12:14 PM, Philipp A. wrote:
Hi,
I want context to shut up, specifically the “mkiv lua stats” at the end
are useless to me and make me scroll up for actual error messages, but
better would be to just stop after the first error.
I consulted the --help docs but found them entirely unhelpful. Also
there’s no examples. As doing it wrong results in no error message or
indeed any kind of effect, I was in the dark.
context --silent -nostatistics
context quits at the first error as recovering is (1) seldom useful, (2)
can interfere badly with tex/mp/lua and make things worse), (3) context
tries to show a bit more precise location where the erro comes from (not
always easy in tex) ... some of these modes originate in paper terminal
times and it's very unlikely that context will change it's current way
of doing things
First I consulted the --help and found: “--silent=list disable
logcatgories (show list with --showlogcategories)”. What’s a “list”?
comma separated? Do I need string delimiters?
comma separated and only quoted when spaces (as usual with spaces)
Whatever, executing “context --showlogcategories” tells me the log
category “mkiv lua stats” exists, so: “context --silent='mkiv lua stats'
doc.tex” does … nothing, the lua stats are still there mocking me.
OK, let’s do what you do when there’s no documentation; dive in the
code: “grep -C3 'batchmode'
/usr/share/texmf-dist/scripts/context/lua/mtx-context.lua”
This tells me that there’s a “errorstopmode” in luatex but no way to
make the context script invoke “luatex -interaction=errorstopmode”, great.
Diving deeper, “setblocked” in mtxtun.lua checks if --silent=all is
specified, nice! But that affects everything EXCEPT for the “mkiv lua
stats”.
grepping for stats will bring you to nostats and nostatistics and
"context --help --expert" shows that flag too
Therefore the two most useful ways to run context (--errorstopmode and
--silent='mkiv lua stats') seem impossible unless one writes a wrapper
script.
Would be cool to have this fixed. And to have actually useful
documentation instead of having to deep-dive into mtxrun.lua.
remarks like the last one are very unlikely to trigger people to write
additional documentation (a manual or wiki page) ... context comes for
free, support comes for free ... there is not much one can demand i guess
Hans
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