The general reason for this is terminals that fail to correctly set a width
are more common that terminals less than 20 characters wide. I think the
current behavior (using a default width if the reported width seems
incorrect) will help more people than it hurts.
On Fri, Sep 1, 2017 at 8:45 AM Mark Volkmann <r.mark.volkm...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> I'm trying to make my fish_prompt function intelligent enough to handle
> any width.
> When wide enough, I'm outputting the current directory path and the Git
> branch if I'm in a Git repo.
> If the window too narrow to display all of that on one line, I display
> them on two lines.
> If the directory won't fit, I output the result of prompt_pwd instead.
> Below 20 columns I want to just display a fish icon.
> That's why I need to be able to detect whether the window is less than 20
> columns.
>
> I use tmux and sometimes have narrow panes from lots of splitting.
> Typically I won't have panes that narrow, but when I do I want to handle it
> and not just have a ">" prompt.
>
> On Fri, Sep 1, 2017 at 8:38 AM, David Adam <zanc...@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au>
> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 1 Sep 2017, Dave Cottlehuber wrote:
>> > On Fri, 1 Sep 2017, at 14:52, Mark Volkmann wrote:
>> > > I'm working in iTerm2 on a Mac.
>> > > Entering "echo $COLUMNS" gives the correct value at most window
>> widths.
>> > > However, if the width is less than 20, it always reports 80.
>> >
>> > On OSX Sierra, with fish 2.6.0, I get the same as you. However if you
>> > try under Terminal.app you are unable to resize the terminal less than
>> > 20 columns anyway...
>> >
>> > On FreeBSD 12.0-CURRENT & fish 2.5.0, things work as you'd expect.
>> > terminal is urxvt in i3wm.
>>
>> This behaviour was introduced in commit
>> 2be1288cacab7ddeee407d22e752b0a3bfa16e63 which is included in 2.6.0 (and
>> 2.6b1).
>>
>> Does anyone use a terminal less than 20 columns wide?
>>
>> David Adam
>> fish committer
>> zanc...@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au
>>
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