Re: Trace and cancel update patches part 3

On Mon, Dec 24, 2001 at 04:24:31PM -0800, Bill Tutt wrote:
> This is the patch in which we add a way to call arbitrary code to catch
> the formatted status messages that the trace-commit, and trace-update
> editors are constructing.

I don't understand. Why would a non-cmdline client want the formatted text
output? Wouldn't it be cleaner to have them create their own editor which
they could then wrap with the standard one? Then you wouldn't have to parse
output, you would get direct callbacks saying what happened.

> ...
>
> Bill

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