Date: Wed, 21 May 2014 13:11:13 +0400 From: Slawa Olhovchenkov <slw@zxy.spb.ru> To: Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@FreeBSD.org> Cc: src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, Jack F Vogel <jfv@freebsd.org>, Rui Paulo <rpaulo@felyko.com>, Bruce Evans <brde@optusnet.com.au>, svn-src-head@freebsd.org, Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r266423 - in head/sys: conf dev/i40e modules/i40e Message-ID: <20140521091113.GA10086@zxy.spb.ru> In-Reply-To: <20140520171613.GM50679@FreeBSD.org> References: <201405190121.s4J1L3qA068339@svn.freebsd.org> <53796149.8060000@freebsd.org> <AF83F052-00D1-40E1-A427-58EDE0853D42@felyko.com> <20140520223516.R2836@besplex.bde.org> <20140520171613.GM50679@FreeBSD.org>
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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.home | help
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