Re: help text per column instead of per row [patch]

2006-12-20 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Benno Schulenberg wrote: > Attached patch prints the builtin commands alphabetically per > column and uses a total width of 80 characters. Here is a better patch. It also puts a ">" in the last column position of the strings that are longer than the available width. To find the width of the cur

help text per column instead of per row [patch]

2006-12-12 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Hi, Currently the 'help' command prints the synopses of all the builtin commands in two columns, but does this row by row, making it hard to see whether a specific command is present or not, as the columns aren't arranged alphabetically. Also, the text uses a total width of only 70 character