How about `set term_width (tput cols)`
On Fri, Sep 1, 2017 at 12:25 PM, Mark Volkmann <r.mark.volkm...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> But how can I detect when the width is less than 20 characters?
>
> On Fri, Sep 1, 2017 at 11:21 AM, Myrddin Emrys <myrd...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> The general reason for this is terminals that fail to correctly set a
>> width are more common that terminals less than 20 characters wide. I think
>> the current behavior (using a default width if the reported width seems
>> incorrect) will help more people than it hurts.
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 1, 2017 at 8:45 AM Mark Volkmann <r.mark.volkm...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I'm trying to make my fish_prompt function intelligent enough to handle
>>> any width.
>>> When wide enough, I'm outputting the current directory path and the Git
>>> branch if I'm in a Git repo.
>>> If the window too narrow to display all of that on one line, I display
>>> them on two lines.
>>> If the directory won't fit, I output the result of prompt_pwd instead.
>>> Below 20 columns I want to just display a fish icon.
>>> That's why I need to be able to detect whether the window is less than
>>> 20 columns.
>>>
>>> I use tmux and sometimes have narrow panes from lots of splitting.
>>> Typically I won't have panes that narrow, but when I do I want to handle
>>> it
>>> and not just have a ">" prompt.
>>>
>>> On Fri, Sep 1, 2017 at 8:38 AM, David Adam <zanc...@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Fri, 1 Sep 2017, Dave Cottlehuber wrote:
>>>> > On Fri, 1 Sep 2017, at 14:52, Mark Volkmann wrote:
>>>> > > I'm working in iTerm2 on a Mac.
>>>> > > Entering "echo $COLUMNS" gives the correct value at most window
>>>> widths.
>>>> > > However, if the width is less than 20, it always reports 80.
>>>> >
>>>> > On OSX Sierra, with fish 2.6.0, I get the same as you. However if you
>>>> > try under Terminal.app you are unable to resize the terminal less than
>>>> > 20 columns anyway...
>>>> >
>>>> > On FreeBSD 12.0-CURRENT & fish 2.5.0, things work as you'd expect.
>>>> > terminal is urxvt in i3wm.
>>>>
>>>> This behaviour was introduced in commit
>>>> 2be1288cacab7ddeee407d22e752b0a3bfa16e63 which is included in 2.6.0
>>>> (and
>>>> 2.6b1).
>>>>
>>>> Does anyone use a terminal less than 20 columns wide?
>>>>
>>>> David Adam
>>>> fish committer
>>>> zanc...@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au
>>>>
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