On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 06:46:57PM +0100, Phil Holmes wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Graham Percival" > <gra...@percival-music.ca> > >On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 04:48:36PM +0200, David Kastrup wrote: > >>Iff stderr is on a tty, there may be some justification to put > >>out some progress indicators to it, but they should not take > >>useful space: one can compress successive progress messages by > >>using CR and/or BS when going on. > > > >How would that play with (presumably poor) terminal support on > >mingw, and even worse, various "graphical" apps like lilypad, > >jedit, frescobaldi, etc? I like that idea for normal linux usage, > >but I don't think we should switch to that system without knowing > >how it would affect other programs which call lilypond. > > TBH, I don't agree at all. I personally think there's nothing worse > than a process that takes place in the background and gives no > indication that anything is happening.
The proposal is to indicate process by doing something like: 1^H^2^H3^H4 whereby we print a number, then print a "backspace" character to erase that number and print another number, etc. Alternate versions could be done by printing a number of dots in [....] and then "erasing" and redrawing dots as necessary, to indicate progress. > My response would be - in Unix, if you don't want to see the > "normal" output, then add a 1>/dev/null - it's simple enough. *blink* My goodness, despite abandoning windows in 2000, I evidently still have a lot of "windows-ness" in my system. 1>/dev/null doesn't look simple at all to me! :) Cheers, - Graham _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
