From: Bryan Richardson <btricha@...>
Date: 2009-07-24T05:44:52+09:00
Subject: Re: Pagination in Readline

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Awesome Gabe!  This worked PERFECTLY!  Thank you so much for pointing out
your project!

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Bryan

2009/7/23 cldwalker <gabriel.horner@gmail.com>

> Hi Brian,
>
> > I'm writing a Ruby command-line terminal program using Readline, and in
> > some cases the output from the commands ran by the user overflows the
> > height of the terminal.  Thus, I'd like to be able to have pagination in
> > the program.  Any ideas how to do this?
>
> I've written hirb, http://tagaholic.me/hirb/, which does conditional
> stdout pagination
> among other things. For your particular case you'd do this:
>
> require 'hirb'
> Hirb::View.enable
> Hirb::View.capture_and_render { puts output }
>
>
> If the output exceeds your console height, it should default to a
> system pager.
> If this doesn't work you may need to pass your console's width and
> height explicitly to Hirb:
> Hirb::View.resize(width, height)
>
> If Hirb doesn't do exactly what you want, you can also just rip out
> the pagination stuff + tweak it.
>
>
> Gabriel
>
>
>

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