[chirp_devel] [developer] Control address format for full-file dump/diff - #1767

[Dan Smith]

> I appreciate the explanation of how to possibly work around
> the initial problem, but my proposed solution is less work, less code,
> tested, just as flexible wrt to controlling the format, and results IMO
> in a friendlier and more robust interface.
> 
> Did you have some reason for not liking that direction?

It's just very limited and the point seems to be to be flexible about
how the lines are formatted, right? What if I wanted to see the address,
the block size, and the block number? With a format string, I could do this:

 %(line_sz)2i * %(i)04i [%(addr)04x]

It just seems like if we're going to do it, we should use a formatted
string. If we do the simple thing and then want the more complicated
thing later, we have to worry about honoring the old configuration value
if present, else the new, or deprecate the old one, etc. It's a trivial
amount of work to make it totally flexible, so it seems worth doing. If
you don't want to do it, I'll plan to cook up a patch tomorrow to make
it flexible and run it by you to see if it works for you, okay?

--Dan

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