OT: yum truncating (was: Re: RFC: X.Org X11 modularization project - rpm package driver naming)

Rodd Clarkson rodd at clarkson.id.au
Sun Aug 28 09:07:31 UTC 2005


On Sat, 2005-08-27 at 17:56 +0200, Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote:

> What about detecting terminal size (width) and adjusting output
> according to that (like less, top, etc. does)?

Why not just use two lines to display file names that are too long for a
single line?  Is it that big an issue.

The only reason why I can think you might not do this is because it
would make greping info hard, but if you've mangled the file name what
difference does it make?


Rodd
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