[Emacs-bug-tracker] bug#6195: closed (Feature Request for "fold")

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> Feature Request for "fold"
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> Fri, 14 May 2010 20:55:28 -0500
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> Hello all,
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> Per the coreutils site I was referred to submit feature requests here on list.  
> I am trying to use the 'fold' utility to make prettier output from 'git-log'.  
> The use is irrelevant, but that is my example:
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> $ git --no-pager log --oneline | fold -s
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> The output looks something like:
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> aa271ba Some commit summary
> ba231ac Another commit summary but this time the line is too long and goes 
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> aa271ba Some other commit summary
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> As you can see, fold chops the second commit entry into two lines, as it went 
> over 80 characters.  What I think would be really useful is the ability to pass 
> a '--indent' option to fold that would allow this:
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> $ git --no-pager log --oneline | fold -s --indent 8
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> aa271ba Some commit summary
> ba231ac Another commit summary but this time the line is too long and goes 
>         beyond 80 characters
> aa271ba Some other commit summary
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> As you can see, this would allow me to generate output that fits better, and 
> looks better when a line gets folded (because i'm using the git commit id in 
> this example as more or less a column).
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> Thanks.d
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> Re: bug#6195: Feature Request for "fold"
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> Mon, 7 Jun 2010 17:32:41 -0600
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> BJ Dierkes wrote:
> > Pádraig Brady wrote:
> > >> $ git --no-pager log --oneline | fold -s
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> > > `fmt` seems to nearly do what you want,
> > > and with a little sed you can line up correctly:
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> > >  fmt -t | sed 's/^   /        /'
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> > > I'm not against a --indent option to fold
> > > but with the overlap between fmt,pr,fold,sed
> > > the barrier to new options to these utils is high.
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> > Thank you for the quick reply.  Your response makes complete sense.
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> Since everyone seems satisfied with the situation I am going to close
> the bug report in the bug tracking system with this message.
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> Bob
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