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

[Darshit Shah]

On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 6:01 PM, Giuseppe Scrivano <address@hidden> wrote:
> 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.
>
Right, I didn't think about using it through wgetrc.
I'll add it as a parameter there then.
> Giuseppe



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Thanking You,
Darshit Shah