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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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