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From: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>,
	Git <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 02/11] ref-filter: make `color` use `ref_formatting_state`
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2015 22:53:06 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAOLa=ZQABLyaKVXub_dzCZem=aK-pFr5odM4aXaKjnMN6Rk=kQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqq4mkpk73h.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>

On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 7:58 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> writes:
>
>> Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> Make the `color` atom a pseudo atom and ensure that it uses
>>> `ref_formatting_state`.
>>
>> Actually, I think this is an incorrect change.
>>
>> Previously, %(color:...) was taking effect immediately, and after this
>> patch, it takes effect starting from the next atom.
>> ...
>> As a consequence of the remark above, I think the name and comment of
>> the field are misleading. There are 3 kinds of atoms:
>>
>> * Placeholders for ref attributes
>>
>> * Atoms that take action immediately, but that are not ref attributes
>>   like %(color)
>>
>> * Atoms that only act as modifiers for the next atom. Perhaps they could
>>   be called "prefix atoms" or "modifier atoms".
>
> My fault.
>
> I briefly thought that it may be simpler to treat %(color) just as a
> different way to express a literal that cannot be typed from the
> keyboard, but your "different kind of atom" is a much better way to
> think about it.

Yes even I agree with this.

>
> What is necessary is that, just like the updated "print_value()"
> knows about the formatting state, "emit()" needs to be told about
> the same formatting state.  Some of these "state affecting" atoms
> may take effect on what is output by "emit()" (e.g. "color" is
> obviously an example, the hypotethical one that counts the current
> output column and uses that knowledge to "align" the output to
> certain columns, instead of "right pad to make the next column
> 30-columns wide" one, which is in this series, is another).

This depends on whether these modifier atoms should effect only succeeding
atoms or any string. Since there is a conversation about this topic on the other
patch, let's continue this discussion there.

>
> Thanks for finding this, and Karthik, sorry for an incomplete
> suggestion based on a faulty thinking.

I don't see why you have to be sorry, you were trying to help :)

-- 
Regards,
Karthik Nayak

  reply	other threads:[~2015-07-27 17:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-07-27  7:26 [PATCH v5 00/11] port tag.c to use ref-filter APIs Karthik Nayak
2015-07-27  7:27 ` [PATCH v5 01/11] ref-filter: introduce 'ref_formatting_state' Karthik Nayak
2015-07-27  7:27   ` [PATCH v5 02/11] ref-filter: make `color` use `ref_formatting_state` Karthik Nayak
2015-07-27 12:47     ` Matthieu Moy
2015-07-27 14:28       ` Junio C Hamano
2015-07-27 17:23         ` Karthik Nayak [this message]
2015-07-27 16:02       ` Karthik Nayak
2015-07-27 13:06     ` Matthieu Moy
2015-07-27 17:16       ` Karthik Nayak
2015-07-27  7:27   ` [PATCH v5 03/11] ref-filter: add option to pad atoms to the right Karthik Nayak
2015-07-27 12:50     ` Matthieu Moy
2015-07-27 15:45       ` Junio C Hamano
2015-07-27 15:54         ` Matthieu Moy
2015-07-27 18:42           ` Karthik Nayak
2015-07-27 18:47             ` Matthieu Moy
2015-07-27 18:54               ` Karthik Nayak
2015-07-27 18:56           ` Junio C Hamano
2015-07-27 18:43       ` Karthik Nayak
2015-07-28 21:41     ` Eric Sunshine
2015-07-29 16:16       ` Karthik Nayak
2015-07-27  7:27   ` [PATCH v5 04/11] ref-filter: add option to filter only tags Karthik Nayak
2015-07-27  7:27   ` [PATCH v5 05/11] ref-filter: support printing N lines from tag annotation Karthik Nayak
2015-07-27  7:27   ` [PATCH v5 06/11] ref-filter: add support to sort by version Karthik Nayak
2015-07-27  7:27   ` [PATCH v5 07/11] ref-filter: add option to match literal pattern Karthik Nayak
2015-07-27 12:54     ` Matthieu Moy
2015-07-27 15:57       ` Karthik Nayak
2015-07-27 15:59         ` Karthik Nayak
2015-07-27 16:06           ` Matthieu Moy
2015-07-27 16:48             ` Karthik Nayak
2015-07-28 21:49     ` Eric Sunshine
2015-07-29 16:17       ` Karthik Nayak
2015-07-30 11:21       ` Karthik Nayak
2015-07-27  7:27   ` [PATCH v5 08/11] tag.c: use 'ref-filter' data structures Karthik Nayak
2015-07-27  7:27   ` [PATCH v5 09/11] tag.c: use 'ref-filter' APIs Karthik Nayak
2015-07-27  7:27   ` [PATCH v5 10/11] tag.c: implement '--format' option Karthik Nayak
2015-07-27  7:27   ` [PATCH v5 11/11] tag.c: implement '--merged' and '--no-merged' options Karthik Nayak
2015-07-27 12:42   ` [PATCH v5 01/11] ref-filter: introduce 'ref_formatting_state' Matthieu Moy
2015-07-27 15:28     ` Karthik Nayak

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