Use relative dates
alexec opened this issue · 5 comments
I don’t want to waste terminal space on todays date. It is today. I know that. Give me back 10 charactes (i.e. 15%) of my terminal area.
Hi Alex, thanks for the suggestion! I agree that screen space is precious and that this is a good way to save some characters. Can't give a timeline at the moment, but this is a useful feature to have.
Hi again @alexec ,
I thought we could re-visit this topic. Could you perhaps describe more in detail what input and output you wish to see in a feature like this?
Remove the date part of the output.
Hi! To chime in (b/c I think this is would be awesome 😄)
# (if current time is 8:42:00)
> spin -tf x.log
2023-10-06T08:41:13.886 helix_view::editor [ERROR] editor error: No definition found.
2023-10-06T08:40:50.852 helix_view::editor [ERROR] editor error: Async job failed: None
> spin --rel-date -tf x.log
47sec ago helix_view::editor [ERROR] editor error: No definition found.
2 min ago helix_view::editor [ERROR] editor error: Async job failed: None
A challenge here is how to keep them updated... in --follow we might have a buffer to play with? (not sure how it's built). Might be nice to have configurable tick, but ~5s might be good to prevent bunch of unnecessary updates? (The easy-cheesy way would be updating on each new input 😅)
# Idea: configurable tick rate?
> spin --rel-date --rel-tick 5 -tf x.logHi again,
An option to disable the date highlighting was added in 1.6.0. Relative dates conversion is a bit problematic to implement at the moment, as it comes with too many caveats. Will close this for now.