Re: [PATCH 3/2] pretty: support right alignment

Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy [off-list ref] writes:

... On the other hand, I don't
really wish to turn pretty format machinery into a full feature text
layout engine (by ripping of links/lynx?).

That is very true.  We should restrain ourselves and avoid going
overboard piling shiny new toys on a not-so-useful foundation that
is not expressive enough.  One feature that is probably much more
needed on the foundation side would be some form of conditional
output, without which built-in output elements like --show-notes
cannot be emulated with --format option.

On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 01:17:43AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

... On the other hand, I don't
really wish to turn pretty format machinery into a full feature text
layout engine (by ripping of links/lynx?).

That is very true.  We should restrain ourselves and avoid going
overboard piling shiny new toys on a not-so-useful foundation that
is not expressive enough.  One feature that is probably much more
needed on the foundation side would be some form of conditional
output, without which built-in output elements like --show-notes
cannot be emulated with --format option.

The embedded lua patch series I just posted may interest (or horrify)
the both of you:

  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/206335

-Peff