On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 10:17:04PM -0300, Joey Hess wrote: > I've very confused by the way I see one thing if I run pstree straight, > and another thing if I redirect its output to a file and cat it. Also, > which lines lack indentation seem to vary by what's in my process tree; > for example right now, only one line of my pstree output is > mis-indented, while there were many when I sent the bug.
the effective screen width (and wrapping) may differ. > It's surely evil code, see bug #265553. I'm trying to think of a tactful way to suggest it be rewritten (I don't have time to do it myself). > > > The strace shows that pstree is properly indenting the lines that do not > > > > I'm not certain about "properly" unless I take the whole thing apart. > > I'll look at the typescript (though it seemed mangled by the newsreader). > > By "properly" I meant only that each line is indented with a seemingly > appropriate number of spaces, even though xterm does not always display the > leading spaces. > > A typescript is a good idea. I've attached one taken with script. When > I did this, and when I play this typescript back with cat, the only line > that is mis-indented is the "xmms" one. yes - I usually use script, since it rarely alters the output. I've a few utilities (unmap, slowcat) on my ncurses ftp area which are useful for studying the typescript files. > I'm using the stock debian xterm terminfo file BTW, though I suspect > pstree does not even use it. when I glanced over the code, I could see it called tgetent, to get the "md" value (sgr0 in terminfo). But as I noted, there are escape sequences hardcoded in the output. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
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