Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2013 16:15:56 +0100 From: Marco Steinbach <coco@executive-computing.de> To: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>, ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: [CFT] New dialog for ports Message-ID: <5145DE2C.40302@executive-computing.de> In-Reply-To: <20130317151102.GD72627@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net> References: <20130314095529.GH53963@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1303170846130.8399@wonkity.com> <20130317151102.GD72627@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net>
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Baptiste Daroussin wrote on 17.03.2013 16:11: > On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 08:56:13AM -0600, Warren Block wrote: >> On Thu, 14 Mar 2013, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: >> >>> Ilya A. Arkhipov wrote dialog4ports which has just been added into the ports >>> tree ports-mgmt/dialog4ports, this is intended to be a replacement for dialog(1) >>> designed specifically for the options, in particular for optionsng. >> My one complaint is that, last I looked, long option descriptions are >> not supported. We really need this. A maintainer should be concerned >> with clear option descriptions and not have to restrict their length at >> the cost of clarity. The user should not have to interpret short or >> cut-off option descriptions. > > pkg-help might help here in the first place, second this could be worked on for > a 0.2 version ;), have you tried anyway long description with this version? I > think they just works correctly, but I haven't tested. I tried. They get truncated, instead of overflowing and hosing the layout. MfG CoCo
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