Verbose

- The 'verbose' configuration variable now accepts a specific list of items to
  be verbose about.  See taskrc(5).

ChangeLog

@@ -30,6 +30,8 @@
  + New 'color.label' for colorizing the report column labels.
  + The 'blanklines' configuration variable now replaced by the 'verbose' token
    'blanklines'.
+ + The 'verbose' configuration variable now accepts a specific list of items to
+   be verbose about.  See taskrc(5).
 
 # Tracked Features, sorted by ID.
  + Added feature #330, which supports the 'inverse' color attribute.

NEWS

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ New Features in taskwarrior 2.0.0
     project, due date and description sorted by urgency).
   - Performance enhancements.
   - New 'next' report, that gauges urgency and reports the most urgent tasks.
-  - The 'blanklines' configuration variable replaced by 'verbose=...' tokens.
+  - Fine control of verbosity through the 'verbose=' configuration variable.
 
   Please refer to the ChangeLog file for full details.  There are too many to
   list here.

doc/man/taskrc.5.in

@@ -192,7 +192,10 @@ that you would see minimal output, with no help text.
 Alternatively, you can specify a comma-separated list of verbosity tokens that
 control specific occasions when output is generated.  This list may contain:
 
-    blanklines        Inserts extra blank lines in output, for clarity
+    blank      Inserts extra blank lines in output, for clarity
+    header     Messages that appear before report output
+    footnote   Messages that appear after report output
+    label      Column labels on tabular reports
 
 Note that the "on" setting is equivalent to all the tokens being specified,
 and the "off" setting is equivalent to none of the tokens being specified.

src/Config.cpp

@@ -71,7 +71,8 @@ std::string Config::defaults =
   "# Miscellaneous\n"
   "verbose=yes                                    # Provide extra feedback\n"
   "#verbose=no                                    # Provide minimal feedback\n"
-  "#verbose=blanklines                            # Provide controlled feedback\n"
+  "#verbose=list                                  # Comma-separated list.  May contain:\n"
+  "#verbose=blank,header,footnote,label\n"
   "confirmation=yes                               # Confirmation on delete, big changes\n"
   "echo.command=yes                               # Details on command just run\n"
   "annotations=full                               # Level of verbosity for annotations: full, sparse or none\n"

src/Context.cpp

@@ -210,7 +210,7 @@ int Context::run ()
     rc = 3;
   }
 
-  // Dump all debug messages.
+  // Dump all debug messages, controlled by rc.debug.
   if (config.getBoolean ("debug"))
     foreach (d, debugMessages)
       if (color ())
@@ -218,8 +218,8 @@ int Context::run ()
       else
         std::cout << *d << "\n";
 
-  // Dump all headers.
-  if (config.getBoolean ("verbose"))
+  // Dump all headers, controlled by 'header' verbosity token.
+  if (verbose ("header"))
     foreach (h, headers)
       if (color ())
         std::cout << colorizeHeader (*h) << "\n";
@@ -229,8 +229,8 @@ int Context::run ()
   // Dump the report output.
   std::cout << output;
 
-  // Dump all footnotes.
-  if (config.getBoolean ("verbose"))
+  // Dump all footnotes, controlled by 'footnote' verbosity token.
+  if (verbose ("footnote"))
     foreach (f, footnotes)
       if (color ())
         std::cout << colorizeFootnote (*f) << "\n";
@@ -355,6 +355,7 @@ bool Context::color ()
 }
 
 ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
+// TODO Support verbosity levels.
 bool Context::verbose (const std::string& token)
 {
   if (! verbosity.size ())

src/columns/Column.cpp

@@ -147,7 +147,8 @@ void Column::renderHeader (
   int width,
   Color& color)
 {
-  if (_label != "")
+  if (context.verbose ("label") &&
+     _label != "")
   {
     // Create a basic label.
     std::string header;