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RFE: Make table style selection a config option #471
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Out of curiosity, what shell are you using and how are you setting the alias. |
It's bash, with |
OK, thanks. I'm guessing that in order to having this as a configuration in Using zypper global-options together with subcommands, as well as executing subcommands in zypper shell is currently not supported. Just like you see in the error message you're getting. But now I'm curious to now what are those limitations. |
You cant deal with this. A subcommand is a standalone program or shell script (like zypper-log). You can even write your own ones. We have no control about what options those programs support. We (the zypp-team) neither provide nor maintain most of them. |
That was the first thing that came to my mind, the "unknown" factor. |
That's why I'm proposing a change, internal to zypper. I've picked |
Could that work out Michael? It kind of makes sense to have this as an option in |
Zypper has the (little known)
-s, --table-style
argument for changing the characters used when a table is drawn in the command output. I currently set my table style with a shell alias, but doing so presents two problems:Subcommand ... does not support zypper global options.
and terminates)I'm suggesting making the table style setting a config option (in
zypper.conf
). It would help with the discoverability of the setting, prevent conflicts with subcommands and unify zypper's appearance no matter how it is invoked.The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: