Subj : RE: Reliable way to get term size
To   : echicken
From : NuSkooler
Date : Mon Apr 05 2021 04:29 pm


On Monday, April 5th echicken was heard saying...
 Ec> The normal way would be to send the cursor to row 255, column 255 
 Ec> (esc[255;255H), then request the cursor position from the terminal 
 Ec> (esc[6n) and parse the response (esc[row;columnR).

At one point I was using 255,255 for ENiG then switched it to 999,999 and I can't remember at all why. I _think_ I may have run into it with a full screen Linux telnet session where 255 wasn't big enough? 

But I do imagine some software isn't too happy with it if they try to store the value in a byte :)



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