Re: [PATCH 5/5] perf tools: Add report.show-headers config file option

From: Jiri Olsa
Date: Fri Jun 20 2014 - 04:04:25 EST


On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 08:46:58AM +0900, Namhyung Kim wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Jun 2014 18:58:15 +0200, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 12:28:43PM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> >> Em Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 09:56:44PM +0900, Namhyung Kim escreveu:
> >> > 2014-06-19 (ë), 13:41 +0200, Jiri Olsa:
> >> > > Adding report.show-headers config file option to setup
> >> > > the appearance of the columns headers.
> >> > >
> >> > > Currently columns headers are displayed by default, following
> >> > > lines in ~/.perfconfig file will disable that:
> >> > >
> >> > > [report]
> >> > > show-headers = true
> >> >
> >> > This also applies to perf top, right? And it's TUI-specific. So how
> >> > about calling it something like "tui.show-headers"?
> >>
> >> Why should it be TUI specific? You either show the headers or you don't,
> >> in all UIs.
> >>
> >> And also in all tools, I think, so I suggest putting it in some global,
> >> for all tools, section in the config file, i.e. something like
> >> all.show-headers.
> >
> > seems like so far we have 'core.' and 'hist.' as non-command specific
> > config sections (note '.core' does not hold any options yet)
> >
> > I can add another 'all.' section
>
> I don't think it's a better name - it's too general. If we really want
> to control all UI behavior I'd rather suggest 'ui.' section name.

I'm fine with 'ui'

>
> Oh, I found that it'd somewhat clash with existing --header(-only)
> option in perf report. :-/

right, so how about:
show-columns-headers
show-columns-headings
show-headings

jirka
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