Marc Espie <marc.espie.open...@gmail.com> wrote: > Actual patches to pkg_add (if need be) welcome > > The switch to not using full term length was actually done at Theo's > request. > > I don't remember the details, but Theo's rationale was quite > reasonable and made lots of sense. > > (specifically, using the full line length would be cool, but there > were lots of fringe cases where it would fuck the display up for > no reason).
printing on the last character of the screen has nasty consequences on some terminal types, unless the entire input&output is fully controlled to ensure in input character doesn't become a canonical output character (ie. the way that a visual text or pager works). avoid it unless absolutely neccessay.
