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Escape tabs in west list -f

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It would be nice if west list -f could escape tabs: e.g. west list -f "{revision} \t {name}"

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Created 4 years ago
Comments:7 (4 by maintainers)

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lemreycommented, Jun 5, 2019

Thank you Marti, truncation is what I needed and it works as expected! 🙇

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mbolivarcommented, Jun 4, 2019

Padding does not seem to work:

$ west list -f '{revision:50} {name}'
(not set)                                          nrf
0023611bbfabd0698a38a12e6f30d7a2a9108702           fw-nrfconnect-zephyr
447495faa326082198c8e12493a2097f2ae20a99           fw-nrfconnect-mcuboot
ef1f9c3d87474ec3570b1f46e91fd4b54a4fb421           fw-nrfconnect-tinycbor
v0.4.0                                             nrfxlib
c243b9a7a7b3c471023193992b46cf1bd1910450           cmock
031f3bbe45f8adf504ca3d13e6f093869920b091           unity
mbedtls-2.13.1                                     mbedtls
$ west list -f '{revision:>50}'
                                         (not set)
          0023611bbfabd0698a38a12e6f30d7a2a9108702
          447495faa326082198c8e12493a2097f2ae20a99
          ef1f9c3d87474ec3570b1f46e91fd4b54a4fb421
                                            v0.4.0
          c243b9a7a7b3c471023193992b46cf1bd1910450
          031f3bbe45f8adf504ca3d13e6f093869920b091
                                    mbedtls-2.13.1

Working fine for me with west v0.5.8, and your example does what I would expect it to do. If you want truncation, use a period:

$ west list -f '{revision:.4}'
(not
0023
4474
ef1f
v0.4
c243
031f
mbed

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