Re: random thought regarding the discussion of the formatting of ascii-art

2008-08-07 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
* Eric Wilhelm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-08-07 23:35]: > So how far do you scroll back, how do find the error message, > and what happens when the root cause has outrun the history > buffer? It’s not 1998 anymore, you can easily have your terminals keep 40,000 lines of scrollback or however many.

Re: random thought regarding the discussion of the formatting of ascii-art

2008-08-07 Thread Andy Armstrong
On 7 Aug 2008, at 22:34, Eric Wilhelm wrote: I would say it only appears if the tests failed. I would prefer that to take focus rather than needing to go activate it. Would you rather scrollback to read the diagnostics in your terminal? Is that so odd? Emphatically YES - I would rather scroll

Re: random thought regarding the discussion of the formatting of ascii-art

2008-08-07 Thread Ovid
--- On Thu, 7/8/08, Eric Wilhelm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So how far do you scroll back, how do find the error > message, and what > happens when the root cause has outrun the history buffer? I don't have to scroll back at all. I just have my tests die on first failure. use Test::Most q

Re: Have/Want

2008-08-07 Thread Ricardo SIGNES
* "David E. Wheeler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-08-07T00:31:27] > On Aug 6, 2008, at 20:12, Michael G Schwern wrote: > > >So I encourage folks to use "have" and "want" in the future. I'll > >be using them in Test::Builder2. > > Good call. Change committed to pgtap and Test.Builder. and PyTAP,

Re: random thought regarding the discussion of the formatting of ascii-art

2008-08-07 Thread Eric Wilhelm
# from Andy Armstrong # on Thursday 07 August 2008 12:49: >> I would say it only appears if the tests failed.  I would prefer   >> that to >> take focus rather than needing to go activate it.  Would you rather >> scrollback to read the diagnostics in your terminal? > >Is that so odd? Emphatically

Re: random thought regarding the discussion of the formatting of ascii-art

2008-08-07 Thread Andy Armstrong
On 7 Aug 2008, at 19:43, Eric Wilhelm wrote: Please don't take focus away from the window I'm working in. Please don't cover up any of the many windows I've carefully arranged so that I can see everything I need. I would say it only appears if the tests failed. I would prefer that to ta

Re: random thought regarding the discussion of the formatting of ascii-art

2008-08-07 Thread Eric Wilhelm
# from David Cantrell # on Thursday 07 August 2008 05:57: >Please don't take focus away from the window I'm working in.  Please >don't cover up any of the many windows I've carefully arranged so that > I can see everything I need. I would say it only appears if the tests failed. I would prefer t

Re: random thought regarding the discussion of the formatting of ascii-art

2008-08-07 Thread David Cantrell
On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 08:17:09PM -0700, Eric Wilhelm wrote: > I bet that would be prettier in a GUI. We all develop on teletypes, eh? > Perhaps something involving TAP and diagnostics could be used to cause a > graphical program to run (egads! a graphical program!) on your shiny > widescreen