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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email>
Cc: GitList <git@vger.kernel.org>, Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>,
	NSENGIYUMVA WILBERFORCE <nsengiyumvawilberforce@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] pretty-formats: add hard truncation, without ellipsis, options
Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2022 09:54:10 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqq359s824t.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <093e1dca-b9d4-f1f2-0845-ad6711622cf5@iee.email> (Philip Oakley's message of "Wed, 7 Dec 2022 00:24:34 +0000")

Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email> writes:

>> and "..[3][4]", respectively.  It also is clear that Trunk
>> and Ltrunk can do "[1][2][3]" and "[2][3][4]", respectively.  We
>> truncate the given string so that we fill the alloted display
>> columns fully.
>
> While this example is clear, it's not clear what should be done if we
> have mixed width strings, e.g. with emojis, as the boundaries in random
> text will also be randomly placed.

As long as wider letters have widths that is integral of the
narrowest letters (ASCII?), "use N columns, padding with '.' if
needed" has a reasonable solution, no?  "[1]A[2]" occupies 2+1+2
columns, so trunc that is given only 3 (or 4) columns can drop the
last "[2]" and fit "[1]A" in the given columns with padding.

> I'll at least work on the doc clarification regarding the column width,
> column position and wide char (2-col) issue, and hopefully a few failing
> tests for the combing code point and the wide char fitment issue.

Thanks, that would give us a very good starting point.

  reply	other threads:[~2022-12-07  0:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-10-30 18:56 [PATCH 0/1] extend the truncating pretty formats Philip Oakley
2022-10-30 18:56 ` [PATCH 1/1] pretty-formats: add hard truncation, without ellipsis, options Philip Oakley
2022-10-30 19:23   ` Taylor Blau
2022-10-30 22:01     ` Philip Oakley
2022-10-30 23:42       ` Taylor Blau
2022-10-30 21:41 ` [PATCH 0/1] extend the truncating pretty formats Philip Oakley
2022-11-01 22:57 ` [PATCH v2 " Philip Oakley
2022-11-01 22:57   ` [PATCH v2 1/1] pretty-formats: add hard truncation, without ellipsis, options Philip Oakley
2022-11-01 23:05     ` Philip Oakley
2022-11-02  0:45       ` Taylor Blau
2022-11-02 12:08         ` [PATCH v3] " Philip Oakley
2022-11-12 14:36           ` [PATCH v4] " Philip Oakley
2022-11-21  0:34             ` Junio C Hamano
2022-11-21 18:10               ` Philip Oakley
2022-11-22  0:57                 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-11-23 14:26                   ` Philip Oakley
2022-11-25  7:11                     ` Junio C Hamano
2022-11-26 14:32                       ` Philip Oakley
2022-11-26 22:44                         ` Philip Oakley
2022-11-26 23:19                         ` Junio C Hamano
2022-11-28 13:39                           ` Philip Oakley
2022-11-29  0:18                             ` Junio C Hamano
2022-12-07  0:24                           ` Philip Oakley
2022-12-07  0:54                             ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2023-01-19 18:18             ` [PATCH v5 0/5] Pretty formats: Clarify column alignment Philip Oakley
2023-01-19 18:18               ` [PATCH v5 1/5] doc: pretty-formats: separate parameters from placeholders Philip Oakley
2023-01-19 18:18               ` [PATCH v5 2/5] doc: pretty-formats: delineate `%<|(` parameter values Philip Oakley
2023-01-19 18:18               ` [PATCH v5 3/5] doc: pretty-formats document negative column alignments Philip Oakley
2023-01-19 18:18               ` [PATCH v5 4/5] doc: pretty-formats describe use of ellipsis in truncation Philip Oakley
2023-01-19 18:18               ` [PATCH v5 5/5] doc: pretty-formats note wide char limitations, and add tests Philip Oakley

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