Re: [Bug-wget] [PATCH] Force --show-progress to print progress bar to stderr

[Darshit Shah]

Aah! Thanks a bunch for pulling the details.

I'll look into this (mostly) over the next weekend. Shouldn't be too hard.

On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 4:38 PM, Tim Ruehsen <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Tuesday 20 January 2015 14:45:50 Darshit Shah wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 2:37 PM, Tim Ruehsen <address@hidden> wrote:
>> > On Sunday 18 January 2015 15:57:47 Darshit Shah wrote:
>> >> This patch causes --show-progress to display the progress bar to the
>> >> screen even when the --logfile option is provided to Wget.
>> >>
>> >> If the --show-progress option is not explicitly enabled, then the old
>> >> behavior of printing the DOT progress to the log file is followed.
>> >> Do review the patch, and if no one has objections I'll push this in a few
>> >> days
>> >
>> > Hi Darshit,
>> >
>> > --show-progress in combination with -o looks very good !
>>
>> Thanks! I'll push it in a few hours once I'm back on my machine.
>>
>> > A while ago I made a suggestion for displaying long file names (remember
>> > ?). Are you going to implement that, too ?
>>
>> I forget, what was it again? Been a little too busy with my work and
>> hence have completely pushed these things aside.
>
> The thread was "Reverse Scrolling Direction", my answer dated 4.12. 09:41:20.
>
> It was (shortened)
> - if the path is too long, just print the filename.
> - if the filename is too long use ... in between
>
> Guiseppe's answer was
> "that is a cool idea.
>
> Saving to: 'www.hostname.d.de/lkdfsldkflsdf/subdir/xxx/file-to-save'
>
> www.hostname.d.de/lkdfsldkfls[...]xx/file-to-save       [ <=>                 
>                                                      ]  77.81K  --.-KB/s   in 
> 0.1s
>
> I guess something like that, by default, would make happy everyone:-)"
>
> Tim



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Thanking You,
Darshit Shah