A simple question with an easy answer: how many characters long is your terminal in full screen? I am working on a torrent searching script, and I am interested in the statistical max dimensions of a terminal. Thanks in advance.
A simple question with an easy answer: how many characters long is your terminal in full screen? I am working on a torrent searching script, and I am interested in the statistical max dimensions of a terminal. Thanks in advance.
No worries, I am just trying to estimate how much I need to truncate the torrent names to be functional for the average user.
Just to give you an idea:
Is that a one shot or are you redrawing it periodically?
there is a simple
readafter the table, so no, it is drawn once. I trid to put a cursor on it, but felt unresponsive and lagging, thusread, kept simpleI wouldn’t worry about it then. If it just spits out a table and lands the user back at their command prompt then you can rely on standard output handling in their environment.
400x100 fullscreen xterm ppl will be happy with that, 80x25 default modeliners will know how to handle it and you won’t even get complaints from the tmux people.
Maybe limit each column to 40 characters. If your torrent titles have more than 40 characters of preamble it’s time to switch release groups…