[Gretl-devel] Re: quiet option issues with 'append' and 'store'

Am 24.10.2021 um 19:47 schrieb Allin Cottrell: > On Sun, 24 Oct 2021, Sven Schreiber wrote: >> ... despite the doc saying that the quiet option should lead to no >> printout. > > True, the doc is not accurate on that point. Nonetheless, printing a > bare confirmation of the location from which the file was loaded is by > design -- other than that, the rest of the usual printed output from > "append" is supressed. I suppose there could be a --silent option that > truly prints nothing. Yes, I think that would be good. IMO, when using such commands in internal functions, there should be a way to really have the internal function do its work silently, without the included commands interfering in the output that's visible to the end user. (Unless something goes wrong.) >> Secondly, it would also be useful if 'store' had such an option in >> the >> first place. The use case is the same as for append, namely that in >> some >> scripts/packages the printout shouldn't be cluttered with more or >> less >> meaningless path echo information. > > That information is not meaningless if the command didn't specify an > absolute path. But maybe we could arrange to suppress it if an > absolute > path was given. Sorry, I didn't mean "meaningless" in general, but in the context of certain (= "some") scripts or packages. Again, the point is that a function author should have control over whether something like that is printed out. I'm not sure the absolute path condition would ensure that. Wouldn't a quiet (or silent) option also be easier to add?