Why doesn't it come close?
The only advantage I see with the separate window is keyboard support for the results, and probably easier to setup the capture stuff, but for that I could add a bash function or similar, that one would pipe the output through.
That's exactly it, it seems purpose designed for debugging, all the extra fields for specifying line number, file name and so on, I think its very clever, getting the same result in the html option is a lot more effort, plus there's the keyboard navigation thing. I think its one of your best inventions, is there any harm in leaving it in?
Chris Jenkins
On 17/11/2005, at 12:57, Chris Jenkins wrote:
The only advantage I see with the separate window is keyboard support for the results, and probably easier to setup the capture stuff [...]
That's exactly it, it seems purpose designed for debugging, all the extra fields for specifying line number, file name and so on, I think its very clever, getting the same result in the html option is a lot more effort, plus there's the keyboard navigation thing. I think its one of your best inventions, is there any harm in leaving it in?
Just for the records: I can't remove it as long as it's used by existing commands, and there's no “wrapper” or similar that provide the exact same functionality (in the HTML window).
It's deprecated because I want new stuff to use the HTML output option (as the “separate window” is rather flawed, and not subject for any short-term improvements).
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