[darcs-users] Colouring and pagination

[Florent Becker]

Would it be a good solution to make darcs changes --interactive the
default? It's more annoying in that you have to step through patches one
by one, but you get the ability to get the details of any patch
immediately. That's what I tend to use the most.

Florent

Le 28/01/2013 03:07, Stephen J. Turnbull a écrit :
> Ash Moran writes:
> 
>  > It's the duplication of effort that gets me. I agree that a tool
>  > shouldn't be forcing everyone to use one particular way. But
>  > anything that has to be done with aliases is something that
>  > everyone who uses that tool has to configure themselves in their
>  > shell.
> 
> In other words, you agree that the tool should be configurable, but
> you want it to strongly encourage everyone to do it your way in the
> name of "usability".  That's a reasonable point of view, I just
> disagree with it.
> 
>  > The specific command here (darcs changes/log) may be an edge
>  > case. By paginating automatically, `git log` shows you the newest
>  > changes first. By not paginating, `darcs log` shows you the
>  > oldest.
> 
> In a project with non-trivial history, you need to limit display in
> some way anyway.  I just have several different ways of doing that,
> and a pager invoked automatically gets in the way of that.