Re: Progress indicator

[David Kastrup]

Michael Käppler <address@hidden> writes:

>> Have you tested this using an editor?  I've tried a fairly long piece
>>   
> No, I haven't.
>> using Frescobaldi and LilyPondTool, and neither likes the backspaces:
>>
>> Preprocessing graphical objects... (1 %) (2 %) (3 %)
>> (4 %) (5 %) (6 %) (7 %) (8 %) (9
>> %) (10 %) (11
>>   
> Argh... I admit that it isn't a very clean way to do this. I'll try to
> find a better solution (never thought that it would be as tricky as it
> actually seems to be...)

An editor will not interpret control characters.  One solution is to
check whether output is sent to a tty and only then use progress
indicators.  Or at least overprinting.

-- 
David Kastrup