new port search format

[William Siegrist]

Maybe something along the lines of the "w" option to ps?  Or a verbose  
flag that turns on/off the descriptions?

-Bill



On Mar 20, 2008, at 4:01 PM, Rainer Müller wrote:
> Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>> I must say I find the new "port search" output format that's in trunk
>> very hard to read. Before, we had roughly a table, and I could scan
>> down the left column to read the port names. Now the description is
>> in roughly the same place -- albeit indented by a couple spaces but
>> it still interferes with my ability to scan the left column, which is
>> no longer a column.
>
> I found it unreadable before. The old format used a scheme which did  
> not
> work with any terminal size. If your window was smaller than the
> description, it was wrapped to the next line. So there wasn't a clear
> first column before either, because the descriptions were 'too long'.
>
> So I decided to use an output format which will work on any terminal
> size with at least 80 columns (the often used standard). And with a
> break at 80 chars also longer descriptions are nice to read.
>
> Maybe we could also put the version and categories in a new line, so
> there will be always the first line of a output block with the port's
> name and nothing else?
>
> Rainer
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