hgbook: chapter on templates

[Mathias De Maré]

On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 10:04 PM, Augie Fackler <raf at durin42.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 2:29 PM, Sean Farley <sean at farley.io> wrote:
>
> > Ah, this is very nice! Thanks for the work!
>
> Indeed! I even cleaned up my own custom templates a little thanks to
> reading through this.
>


Glad to hear the enthousiasm :)
A lot of it is modified from the original '--style' description Bryan gave,
so he deserves most of the credit.

On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 11:37 PM, Matt Mackall <mpm at selenic.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 2016-07-18 at 17:58 +0200, Mathias De Maré wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > it's been quite a while since I sent around another chapter. I'm afraid I
> > had other topics to focus on.
> > I've reworked the chapter 'Customizing the output of Mercurial' to
> discuss
> > templates (rather than the old '--style' option).
>
> Other things to mention:
>
> - the -T option
> - the [templates] section (simplifies many of your templatealias examples)
>
Oh, good point. It also seems that this feature is not yet in the help, so
I'll try to add it there as well.

> - using a path to a template file
>
Do you mean using '%include'?

> - adding files to the template path
>
 I'm not quite sure what you mean here. Is this about the use of the
'templates' directory relative to the 'hg' binary? I had to look this up in
the templater.py code, so it seems quite well hidden.

> - multi-line assignments and quoting in config files
> - hg debugcolor
>
> Things that are just about official and long-deployed:
>
> - generic templating of most of the other display commands
> - the generic JSON and XML styles
> - using -T json for discovery
> - how to assign different templates with the same name to different
> commands
>
Good idea. Just found out about this last one :-)

Thanks for the good suggestions, I'll look into these next!

Greetings,
Mathias
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