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Tidy output clutter #857

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Yves4 opened this issue Jan 31, 2020 · 2 comments
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Tidy output clutter #857

Yves4 opened this issue Jan 31, 2020 · 2 comments

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@Yves4
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Yves4 commented Jan 31, 2020

Hi,
It would be nice to maintain the standard UNIX approach, which is no unnecessary output. So basically make the -q flag default and put the text in the help text or something. This disturbs the casual user and is less polite.

I'm referring to this text:

"About HTML Tidy: https://github.com/htacg/tidy-html5
Bug reports and comments: https://github.com/htacg/tidy-html5/issues
Official mailing list: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-htacg/
Latest HTML specification: http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec-author-view/
Validate your HTML documents: http://validator.w3.org/nu/
Lobby your company to join the W3C: http://www.w3.org/Consortium

Would you like to see Tidy in proper, British English? Please consider
helping us to localise HTML Tidy. For details please see
https://github.com/htacg/tidy-html5/blob/master/README/LOCALIZE.md"

@geoffmcl
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geoffmcl commented Feb 9, 2020

@Yves4 thanks for your comment...

Well, I did not know there is a standard UNIX approach... that includes no unnecessary output... refs for that... ;=))

But even if there is, with a less-is-better philosophy, the creators of tidy, who were unix based, seemed to include a html educational approach, to the errout output...

And I guess that it is aimed primarily at the casual user... since it repeats things a dev would know... and certainly did not intend it to be less polite... lol...

Since from their first tidy --help, they can read how to quieten, -q, or redirect, -f tidyout.txt, etc, etc...

So is it the time, to invert the verbal default, by the founders... maybe... but...

Maybe I have gotten used to adding -q, just about every time... yes, it probably really annoys the developer... ;=))

But can maybe be persuaded... look forward to further feedback... thanks...

@balthisar
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I'm going to close this as a duplicate of #607, which is even more encompassing than this request.

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