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wurmlab / oswitch

Provides access to complex Bioinformatics software (even BioLinux!) in just one command.

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Small usability fixes #29

Closed chapmanb closed 9 years ago

chapmanb commented 9 years ago

Anurag and Yannick; Thank you for OSwitch, this is a really brilliant contribution. I played around with this some and really loved it. I found a couple of minor things, in this small patch:

Only try and mount directories, skipping files found in base directories
Avoid blue text for messages which is unreadable on black background terminals

Thank you again.

yeban commented 9 years ago

I'm wondering if highlighting the text in bold would work on all kind of terminals ... or perhaps '####' before and after the message is enough?

chapmanb commented 9 years ago

Anurag; From my side the message was clear enough without additional emphasis but totally your call here. Thanks again for all your work on this.

yeban commented 9 years ago

Thanks for the patch and the kind words, @chapmanb.

@yannickwurm I want a second opinion on whether to emphasise (if yes, how? bold?) or not - I'm leaning in favor of no emphasis.

yannickwurm commented 9 years ago

Hey @chapmanb - glad you like oswitch, sorry about blue on blue & thanks for the PR.

@yeban: For experienced users who understand switch/docker/etc emphasis is largely unnecessary. But naive users need some help to help determine the difference between what they can ignore and what they should at least glance at. Non-expert users is also where oswitch can add the most value. With that in mind I feel we should maintain some emphasising. bold may indeed be most portable. Did you have a look at what commands the brew guys use? some of their stuff is emphasised & I suppose it is done in a portable way...