On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 10:31:47AM -0600, Richard Cobbe wrote:
| Lo, on Friday, January 11, Craig Dickson did write:
|
| > Richard Cobbe wrote:
| >
| > > (Just out of curiosity, is the COLUMNS trick documented anywhere? I
| > > couldn't find it in any of the obvious manpages: dpkg(8), bash(1),
| > > environ(7).)
| >
| > Yes, it actually is in the bash manpage:
| >
| > Simple Commands
| >
| > A simple command is a sequence of optional variable assignments
| > followed by blank-separated words and redirections, and
| > terminated by a control operator. The first word specifies the
| > command to be executed, and is passed as argument zero. The
| > remaining words are passed as arguments to the invoked command.
|
| Wrong trick. I meant the special meaning of the COLUMNS environment
| variable, not the ability to set it on the command line for a single
| process.
ncurses thing, apparently. Try
COLUMNS=120 mutt
and see how messed up it gets :-).
$ man ncurses
COLUMNS
Specify the width of the screen in characters.
Applications running in a windowing environment usu
ally are able to obtain the width of the window in
which they are executing. If neither the $COLUMNS
value nor the terminal's screen size is available,
ncurses uses the size which may be specified in the
terminfo database (i.e., the cols capability).
[there's more after this too]
-D
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