On Thursday 06 March 2008, Michael Schwingen wrote:
Wolfgang Denk wrote:
Please let's stay terse. Printing a dot is a single character on the console. I dislike funny stuff which requires output of non-printing characters or (weven worse!) terminal specific escape sequences.
Backspace or CR without LF should work on all terminals, no?
I don't see here any problems either.
No matter how it is implemented, I am strongly in favor of *some* kind of progress output.
Sure. We all agree on this.
If it is possible to estimate how long the operation will take, this would be a big plus IMHO (which precludes the simple dots).
Yes, this would be a great plus of the new idea with printing "kB" or "%". We would have an idea on how long this operation will take to complete. From my point of view this is no "funny stuff" but really helpful information which is currently missing. And the implementation effort as you have seen is quite low, probably even lower than printing dots each second while programming.
Best regards, Stefan
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