[PATCH] obtain terminal_width via curses
Matthew Hannigan
mlh at zip.com.au
Wed Apr 26 02:43:51 BST 2006
On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 10:45:57AM +1000, Martin Pool wrote:
>
> Thanks for the patch. There is an existing bug open for this,
> https://launchpad.net/products/bzr/+bug/3507
>
> That bug suggests using TIOCGWINSZ to do this, rather than curses,
> which is at least conceptually more lightweight. Are there any
> particular advantages to using curses?
Strictly speaking, there may be a environment variable 'COLUMNS'
that curses may take note of, but I wouldn't worry about
that too much.
Matt
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