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

2008-08-18 Thread Eric Wilhelm
# from Ovid # on Monday 18 August 2008 09:14: >Moving forward is so much more satisfying than "did not/did too" > discussions. Now if only there were somewhere to move forward to. My thought was that a more sophisticated presentation of complicated have/want could be accomplished using a pair

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

2008-08-18 Thread Ovid
--- On Mon, 18/8/08, Ovid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > out who's to blame? Moving forward is so much more > satisfying "did not/did too" discussions. more satisfying THAN "did not/did too" discussions. And learning how to write is more satisfying still. Cheers, Ov ... -- Buy the book

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

2008-08-18 Thread Ovid
--- On Mon, 18/8/08, Eric Wilhelm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Eric Wilhelm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > # from David Cantrell > # on Monday 18 August 2008 04:07: > > >> > get remote GUIs to work > >> > >> That's not what I said ;-)  See, the remote ... > > > >You were talking about ... So yes, it

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

2008-08-18 Thread Eric Wilhelm
# from David Cantrell # on Monday 18 August 2008 04:07: >> > get remote GUIs to work >> >> That's not what I said ;-)  See, the remote X session is a protocol > >You were talking about doing GUI stuff.  You mentioned running tests > on another machines.  So yes, it is what you said. No, I didn't

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

2008-08-18 Thread David Cantrell
On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 11:43:00AM -0700, Eric Wilhelm wrote: > # from David Cantrell > > 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

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

2008-08-08 Thread Eric Wilhelm
# from Aristotle Pagaltzis # on Thursday 07 August 2008 23:41: >It’s not 1998 anymore, you can easily have your terminals keep >40,000 lines of scrollback or however many. And if you expect >reams of output, you open a fresh terminal for it. Problems >solved. Oh, hey. Thanks for solving that. M

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: 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

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

2008-08-06 Thread Eric Wilhelm
# from Michael G Schwern # on Wednesday 06 August 2008 19:49: >Maybe line them up and space them out? > ># ++--+--+ ># | Elt|Got       |Expected  | ># ++--+--+ ># |   0|id, name  |id, name  | ># *   1|1,  Bob   |2,  Bob   * ># ++--+--+ >