From: Kenneth McDonald <kenneth.m.mcdonald@...>
Date: 2008-09-26T10:11:07+09:00
Subject: Re: How to get terminal dimensions without using curses or ncurses?

This looks very nice. Do you know where on OS X highline and its  
documentation get installed, after a sudo gem install? Strangely, I  
can't find them easing using the OS X search features.

Thanks,
Ken
On Sep 25, 2008, at 7:27 PM, James Gray wrote:

> On Sep 25, 2008, at 5:33 PM, Kenneth McDonald wrote:
>
>> I'd like to be able to print to terminal and do some reasonable  
>> formatting, without going to the trouble of learning curses. I  
>> simply need to know the dimensions of the terminal, but that info  
>> doesn't appear to be available in the ENV variables (which is what  
>> I'd expected.) Is there a way to get this info?
>
> Sure:
>
> $ cat term_size.rb
> #!/usr/bin/env ruby -wKU
>
> require "rubygems"
> require "highline/system_extensions"
>
> p HighLine::SystemExtensions.terminal_size
> $ ruby term_size.rb
> [80, 24]
>
> You can look in that file of the source if you just want to see how  
> HighLine is doing that on various platforms.
>
> James Edward Gray II
>