Re: [Monotone-devel] stats line length

[Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker]

In message <address@hidden> on Wed, 12 Apr 2006 06:57:18 -0500, Timothy 
Brownawell <address@hidden> said:

tbrownaw> On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 04:08 -0700, Nathaniel Smith wrote:
tbrownaw> > On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 12:07:23PM +0200, Richard Levitte - VMS 
Whacker wrote:
tbrownaw> > > a. you mean like making all fields have a fixed minimum size?  
Doable,
tbrownaw> > >    but what size is the right minimum?
tbrownaw> > 
tbrownaw> > We could just give a hint when we create the ticker, how wide it is
tbrownaw> > likely to get... it's hackish, sure, but most of these fields are
tbrownaw> > pretty consistent in the range they're likely to hit, so I bet you
tbrownaw> > could get 90% of the benefit with something simple like that.
tbrownaw> > 
tbrownaw> > Another thing that might help would be, e.g., whenever the column
tbrownaw> > width needs to go up, increasing it by more than the minimum
tbrownaw> > necessary, in the hopes of avoiding future increases.
tbrownaw> 
tbrownaw> It used to just set the width to how wide it would get
tbrownaw> before switching to the next higher suffix (so, wide enough
tbrownaw> for "1014.8k"). This wouldn't work very well for tickers
tbrownaw> that are given a maximum count, but those can just use that
tbrownaw> to figure out how wide they need to be.

FYI, I'm working on an idea that does that, more or less.  TO be
committed pretty soon.

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