"tput cols" seems to have the same issue.
When the number of columns is less than 20, it reports 80.
On Fri, Sep 1, 2017 at 11:45 AM, Glenn Jackman <jack...@pythian.com> wrote:
> 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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