Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 00:46:04 +0200 From: Matthias Buelow <mkb@incubus.de> To: Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Strange top(1) output Message-ID: <4283DCAC.1040805@incubus.de> In-Reply-To: <20050512223811.93CF35D07@ptavv.es.net> References: <20050512223811.93CF35D07@ptavv.es.net>
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Kevin Oberman wrote: > top(1) could check the width of the display and tailor the display to > that width. May screen based tools already do this and it provides a lot > of flexibility. It's best to check the width for width on every update > so that the screen (if its a soft terminal) may be increased and the > display re-written to take advantage of that, on the fly. Errm.. it is doing that already, doesn't it? I can definitely resize the xterm and it adjusts itself to the new width, only the command name is clipped after a certain length (so there's a maximum length it would display). mkb.
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