On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 09:16:13PM +0400, Gleb Smirnoff wrote: > On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 11:40:01PM +1000, Bruce Evans wrote: > B> Also, verbose names break formatting. E.g., netstat -r has 5 columns > B> available under Netif for the driver name and device number. netstat > B> -i has about the same under Name (possibly 1 or 2 not directly under > B> Name, but reserved for the Name column). systat has 3 columns > B> available, but with a more flexible format that truncates other info. > B> All driver name+numbers are broken now on freefall: > > We must admit that nowadays 80x25 terminal is not enough :( > > Would be cool if most of tools (netstat, systat, etc...) could > determine size of terminal and dynamically widen all their fields. > Thus, tool can run w/o any abbreviations when run in a script mode, > run abbreviated on a small terminal, and run verbose on a wide > terminal. > > This sounds like a generic library providing a special version > of printf(3), which specifies minimal and maximum sizes for fields > and when extra terminal width is available it distributes this > width evenly between all fields. Name it 'elastic printf'. > Sounds like a nice Google SoC project. Or might be that such > library already exists.
Sound like 'universal common distributed enterprise serial bus' from Rambler. Just simple check size of screen and select items and precession for display. _______________________________________________ svn-src-all@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-all-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
