Re: Command-line verbosity

Jim Blandy wrote:

> Okay --- why do you pay attention to the left-side letters? What
> information do you want from them? Visual grep is notoriously
> unreliable. I would like to find a more definite way to provide
> people the same information.

1. have an event dispatch routine for all user notifications.
2. If the event display level allows a lot of noise, then record
    "important" events in a temporary file.
3. When the command completes, if the temp file is not empty,
    display the contents
4. unlink the temp file.
Received on Sat Oct 21 14:36:12 2006