Re: [Bug-wget] [Bug-Wget][RFC] Even more changes to the progress bar

[Giuseppe Scrivano]

Darshit Shah <address@hidden> writes:

> On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 4:30 PM, Giuseppe Scrivano <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Darshit Shah <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> Has anyone tested out this patch yet?
>>>
>>> I'd really like some feedback on this before it gets merged. I prefer
>>> this implementation of the progress bar over the original one. Does
>>> anybody have any issues / suggestions?
>>
>> it looks very nice, thanks to have worked on it.
>>
>> Do you think we could make an argument to --progress instead?  Something
>> like:
>>
>> wget --progress=bar:force:noscroll ...
>
> Given the number of people who asked for a noscroll option, I think
> this one would be often used and hence, I'd like to keep as short an
> option for this as possible. In fact I was thinking about adding a
> short option, -ns or something similar.

well, if we implement it trough --progress these people can just type it
once in their ~/.wgetrc file.

I am just hesitant to add a new command line argument as we will get stuck
with it forever if we'll change idea.

Giuseppe