Process status mixed in with process name

[ionrock]

When starting a process, the Running text is in the middle of the process name.

Here is a screenshot.

[rejeep]

That's because my limited knowledge in making GUI's in Emacs. Here's why https://github.com/rejeep/prodigy.el/blob/master/prodigy.el#L173. I will fix this sooner or later, so I'll leave this issue open. You can always shorten the name of your services to solve it for now.

[ionrock]

@rejeep I can definitely relate! One idea that might short circuit the need to create columns or something similar would be to prefix things.

[Running] some/long/process name
[Stopped] some other long process name

That should be relatively easy to implement. I'd expect the brackets help for finding the status but you could just as easily do a "|" and work through the listing line by line (which I think you already do?).

If I get a minute I'll take a stab at it, but as my elisp skills are pretty lacking, I suspect someone else will beat me to the punch.

Thanks for writing prodigy!

[rejeep]

I think putting the status at the beginning will only push the real solution a bit in the future. Sooner or later it has to be done properly, so why not now...?

I'm goona give this some thought and see what I can come up with. :)

[magnars]

There is a table display mode in Emacs already, if that helps any. Not sure if you're even using it. :)

[rejeep]

Nope, not using it, will check out, thanks!

[rejeep]

Closing this since prodigy now uses tabulated list mode.

[ionrock]

Very cool!