[Gretl-devel] Re: OT: quiet loop (Re: Re: x-range for scatters using daily data)

On Mon, 2 Mar 2020, Sven Schreiber wrote: > Am 02.03.2020 um 10:06 schrieb Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti: > >> loop i = 1 .. ntics --quiet > > I absolutely don't want to hijack this thread, but we write loop ... > --quiet so often that I wonder whether the equivalent of 'setopt loop > persist --quiet' shouldn't be promoted to a user-settable option in the > GUI preferences. > (I guess to override temporarily then loop would need a --verbose option...) Agreed. We could maybe even countenance mild backward incompatibility: make "loop" quiet by default and add a --verbose option. If we did that we'd continue to accept the --quiet option, of course, but it would do nothing.