On 20 May 2014, at 18:16, Gleb Smirnoff <gleb...@freebsd.org> wrote: > Would be cool if most of tools (netstat, systat, etc...) could > determine size of terminal and dynamically widen all their fields. > Thus, tool can run w/o any abbreviations when run in a script mode, > run abbreviated on a small terminal, and run verbose on a wide > terminal. > > This sounds like a generic library providing a special version > of printf(3), which specifies minimal and maximum sizes for fields > and when extra terminal width is available it distributes this > width evenly between all fields. Name it 'elastic printf'. > Sounds like a nice Google SoC project. Or might be that such > library already exists.
We have a summer of code project to teach (some of) these tools to produce a structured, machine-readable, output and write a few generic tools for processing them. This should make it a lot easier to produce simple tools that can fit the information that you actually want into a terminal (or send HTML to netcat, or whatever). David _______________________________________________ svn-src-head@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-head-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
