Viewing Enhancement

[AndrewRussellHayes]

I wonder if there is a short&simple way to view the journal once it gets long? something similar to the way man pages are viewed?

Anyway, regardless, great idea! I'm already using it!

[gopatrik]

Good point!

Since it's markdown - the first thing that comes to mind is just a css file that formats the html in a really good way; could also build in some pagination.

I've also considered the idea to sort the file by newest first, so the most relevant info is always at the top, I guess the sooner I can come to terms with this the better. What do you think?

Not sure what you mean by how man pages are viewed though?

Cool! Thank you! Me too! Spread the love! :)

[AndrewRussellHayes]

When i was referring to man pages I was meaning the pagination you referred to.

[lindskogen]

@AndrewRussellHayes manpages are viewed per default by less, try using less ajour.md?

[AndrewRussellHayes]

@Ndushi perfect. exactly what i was looking for.

@gopatrik do you think it would make sense for ajour, when called with no arguments, to perform less ajour.md ?

It seems to me that viewing the journal is a sensible default for ajour when called without a statement to journal or add to an already existing journal.

Thoughts?

[gopatrik]

@AndrewRussellHayes @Ndushi Great idea, will take care of it when I get home, (if I don't see a pull request by then) ;)!

[AndrewRussellHayes]

If I get a chance I'll try my hand at it. Wrestling with an Ubuntu preseed file at the moment.

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@AndrewRussellHayes @Ndushi Great idea, will take care of it when I get home, (if I don't see a pull request by then) ;)!

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[gopatrik]

@AndrewRussellHayes Hm. Not as trivial as I thought to run a shell command in the current session for node. First I looked into shelljs, but couldn't keep the less process alive, just got a huge output dump before the program exits. Now I'm looking into require('child_process').spawn. http://nodejs.org/api/child_process.html#child_process_child_process_spawn_command_args_options

[AndrewRussellHayes]

Do you have any thoughts on a different language?

I made a fork and was going to re-write using go. Mainly because I want to get some go practice and I thought it would be nice to exist without any dependancies.

Do you know much about go? its a great language and It should allow the shell executions we are discussing here.

[gopatrik]

@AndrewRussellHayes Haha, that's ironic, I wrote this as an npm package so I could learn to to just that.

I've tried out a few go-exercises, but never got around to creating a project in it!

I'll give it some thought, you are more than welcome to give it a go though. Pun intended!