Actually, looks like Ruby can't see the ENV["COLUMNS"] value (see http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/211453). For now, I'll just drop that part of the patch and hard-code 80, until someone can come up with a platform-independent way of querying the terminal size.
- Jamis On Jan 12, 2007, at 10:08 AM, NeilW wrote: > > First patch the patch. > > Should be: > > wrap_length = (ENV['COLUMNS'] || 80).to_i - info[:longest] - 1 > > The existing code fails for me on the standard 'spinner' and > 'update_code' tasks both of which wrap the odd line by one character. > I'm using standard Ubuntu Gnome terminals. > > Worth checking you have a genuine 80 column terminal first by > generating a wrap, e.g. > > ruby -e '81.times {print "x"}' > > Rgs > > NeilW > > > > > On Jan 12, 4:29 pm, Jamis Buck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Thanks for the patch, Neil! However, I'm curious... I've never >> noticed any problems. Can you give me an example where the existing >> code breaks down? >> >> Regardless, I'll be applying your fix. >> >> - Jamis >> >> On Jan 12, 2007, at 9:03 AM, NeilW wrote: >> >> >> >>> That 'off by one' error in 'show tasks' finally annoyed me enough >>> this >>> afternoon to knock together a fix. >> >>> The problem is caused because there is a space separator in the >>> 'puts' >>> picture string which isn't taken into account by the line split >>> algorithm. >> >>> Additionally I included a look in the environment for the value of >>> 'COLUMNS', which on many Linux distributions is set to the width of >>> the >>> terminal. (Make sure you export it if you want it to work!) >> >>> Line 29 in 'standard.rb' >> >>> Change >> >>> wrap_length = 80 - info[:longest] >> >>> to >> >>> wrap_length = (ENV['COLUMNS'].to_i || 80) - info[:longest] - 1 >> >>> Finally my task descriptions format correctly; harmony is >>> restored :-) >> >>> NeilW > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/capistrano -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---