From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 02:54:48 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/7] tag: support column output with --column
Message-ID: <87aai4r43r.fsf@catnip.gol.com>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinHyX+uiO+Oj3N3NAEjbZmE=vbKsA+C+tQ6B-Db@mail.gmail.com>

Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:
>> Hmm, is this robbing streaming output from people who do not care about
>> columnar output?
>
> Yes, but tag list is short enough streaming does not really matter. I
> can check if column mode is active there, if it's not, just printf.

...but it's important to note, I think that in many projects the tag
list is at least long enough that columnar output would be hugely
useful...

-miles

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