Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] pym/portage/news.py: let slackers copy+paste the news read command
On Fri, 30 Jan 2015 00:37:30 -0800 Zac Medico zmed...@gentoo.org wrote: On 01/30/2015 12:14 AM, Jason Zaman wrote: On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 11:00:21PM -0800, Zac Medico wrote: Also, when the work read appears twice on a short line like that, it gives a wordy/redundant feeling. Perhaps better would be 'eselect news read' to view new items? ie. view instead of the second read. Yeah, that's much better. Committed and pushed this last version. Thank you Toralf -- Brian Dolbec dolsen
[gentoo-portage-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] pym/portage/news.py: let slackers copy+paste the news read command
On 01/30/2015 12:14 AM, Jason Zaman wrote: On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 11:00:21PM -0800, Zac Medico wrote: Also, when the work read appears twice on a short line like that, it gives a wordy/redundant feeling. Perhaps better would be 'eselect news read' to view new items? ie. view instead of the second read. Yeah, that's much better. -- Thanks, Zac
[gentoo-portage-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] pym/portage/news.py: let slackers copy+paste the news read command
Zac Medico posted on Fri, 30 Jan 2015 00:37:30 -0800 as excerpted: On 01/30/2015 12:14 AM, Jason Zaman wrote: On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 11:00:21PM -0800, Zac Medico wrote: Also, when the work read appears twice on a short line like that, it gives a wordy/redundant feeling. Perhaps better would be 'eselect news read' to view new items? ie. view instead of the second read. Yeah, that's much better. View works, or I was going to suggest see, which I'm still partial to over view: 'eselect news read' to see news items. (And FWIW, select/paste vs. type, depends on my mood and the pointing device I'm using. I used to select/paste quite a bit with a trackball, depending on mood, but I'm using a touchpad without physical buttons as my primary pointing device now, and it's more trouble there, so I'd type it as long as the command is short or can be tab-completed, and only select/paste for long ones or those with arbitrary and hard to remember options, possibly even switching pointing devices to do it if I'm not running X and thus don't have the 20-gesture-button programmed flexibility of a well configured xf86-input-mtrack. An text-console evdev-based mtrack driver to parallel the X driver would sure be nice!) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master. Richard Stallman
[gentoo-portage-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] pym/portage/news.py: let slackers copy+paste the news read command
On Thu, 29 Jan 2015, Zac Medico wrote: -print(Use + colorize(GOOD, eselect news) + to read news items.) +print(Use + colorize(GOOD, eselect news read new) + to read new items.) I guess that's fine, but I have to wonder how many people are really that lazy. To me, it actually seems like more effort to highlight the span of characters with the mouse than it does to type them out. Also, when the work read appears twice on a short line like that, it gives a wordy/redundant feeling. Also new is the default for eselect's read action, therefore eselect news read would be enough. Ulrich pgpjeToyup0vH.pgp Description: PGP signature