Rainer Müller wrote:
Ryan Schmidt wrote:
I must say I find the new "port search" output format that's in trunk very hard to read. Before, we had roughly a table, and I could scan down the left column to read the port names. Now the description is in roughly the same place -- albeit indented by a couple spaces but it still interferes with my ability to scan the left column, which is no longer a column.
I found it unreadable before. The old format used a scheme which did not work with any terminal size. If your window was smaller than the description, it was wrapped to the next line. So there wasn't a clear first column before either, because the descriptions were 'too long'.
Work out the width of the terminal `tput cols', default to 80 if you can't figure it out, and work from there (test first if it is a tty, of course, if not output can be as verbose as you like, it's either going to a file or a pipe). Peter -- Peter O'Gorman http://pogma.com