From: James Gray <james@...>
Date: 2008-09-27T00:49:54+09:00
Subject: Re: How to get terminal dimensions without using curses or ncurses?

On Sep 26, 2008, at 4:05 AM, Brian Candler wrote:

> 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?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Ken
>
> There is code in Ruport that you could try.
>
> http://stonecode.svnrepository.com/svn/ruport/ruport/trunk/lib/ruport.rb
>
> Search down to "terminal_size"

Looks to me like Greg took that code right out of HighLine.  :)

James Edward Gray II