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 _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-dev
