Re: [PATCH 5/5 v2] perf timechart: add emphasize option

[Ingo Molnar]

* Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Em Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 02:41:37PM +0100, Ingo Molnar escreveu:
> > * Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Em Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 04:15:22PM +0400, Stanislav Fomichev escreveu:
> > > > > Please give a sample usage command line and a sample output. (the 
> > > > > highlighting can be done using ASCII escape sequences in the changelog 
> > > > > as well.)
> > > > Highlighting is done in the generated SVG, so I can't really show it in
> > > > the log or documentation. But I added simple example with -e option.
> 
> > > > >   -e::
> > > > >   --emphasize=<duration_nsecs|task_name>::
> > > > Thanks, added.
> 
> > > I also wonder how to allocate single letter options here... can we live
> > > with just --emphasize for now? Wouldn't at some point we maybe want to
> > > use -e in 'perf timechart' to pick some specific event, and then, to
> > > make it consistent with the other tools, -e would then be used?
>  
> > I wanted to raise a similar argument too - so if we don't have to do 
> > -e then maybe '--grep' would be the better option name?
>  
> > If it becomes popular then the pattern matching can be improved, 
> > without having to change the option name and such.
> 
> Humm, 'grep' is a filter, i.e. something that removes parts of the 
> data being perused, while this case it will not filter anything, it 
> will just make something that matches some search criteria to stand 
> out from the rest, that is still there, so perhaps --emphasize is Ok 
> albeit kinda long...

So I frequently use grep with -C 1000 --color=always to also show the 
context. But --grep-context sounds too long.

Maybe --highlight ?

> Do we have any other command line tool that has a long standing 
> semantics of "highlighting" or "emphasizing" parts of a data stream?

Yeah, grep's -C, -A, -B options. (--context, --context-after, 
--context-before), combined with the --color option to highlight.

Thanks,

	Ingo
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