[erlang-questions] Getting the number of columns of a terminal

[Juan Jose Comellas]

The problem with this approach is that I need to do it portably (i.e.
also on Windows).

Thanks,

Juanjo


On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 11:17 AM, Gustav Simonsson
<gustav.simonsson@REDACTED> wrote:
>
> Good question.
> If you can find out which terminal device you're in you can do something like this:
>
> 15:14:12 belegost ~> tty
> /dev/pts/1
> 15:14:16 belegost ~> erl
> Erlang R14B04 (erts-5.8.5) [source] [smp:2:2] [rq:2] [async-threads:0] [hipe] [kernel-poll:false]
>
> Eshell V5.8.5  (abort with ^G)
> 1>
> 1> open_port({spawn_executable, "/bin/sh"}, [{args,["-c", "stty -aF /dev/pts/1"]}]).
> #Port<0.581>
> 2> flush().
> Shell got {#Port<0.581>,
>           {data,"speed 38400 baud; rows 70; columns 119; line = 0;\nintr = ^C; quit = ^\\; erase = ^?; kill = ^U; eof = ^D; eol = M-^?; eol2 = M-^?;\nswtch = M-^?; start = ^Q; stop = ^S; susp = ^Z; rprnt = ^R; werase = ^W;\nlnext = ^V; flush = ^O; min = 1; time = 0;\n-parenb -parodd cs8 hupcl -cstopb cread -clocal -crtscts\n-ignbrk brkint -ignpar -parmrk -inpck -istrip -inlcr -igncr -icrnl ixon -ixoff\n-iuclc ixany imaxbel iutf8\n-opost -olcuc -ocrnl onlcr -onocr -onlret -ofill -ofdel nl0 cr0 tab0 bs0 vt0 ff0\nisig -icanon iexten -echo echoe echok -echonl -noflsh -xcase -tostop -echoprt\nechoctl echoke\n"}}
> ok
> 3>
>
> The problem is if you call tty or stty directly from within Erlang then they will
> fail because they cannot know which terminal device they are executed from.
> The good thing about stty though if you can find a way to use it is that it works on linux, mac os x and BSD.
>
> Regards,
> Gustav Simonsson
>
>
>
> Sent from my PC
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Juan Jose Comellas" <juanjo@REDACTED>
> To: "erlang-questions" <erlang-questions@REDACTED>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2012 1:54:54 PM
> Subject: [erlang-questions] Getting the number of columns of a terminal
>
> Does anybody know if there's any way of getting the number of columns
> in a terminal in a portable way in Erlang (i.e. not using curses or
> anything else that's not available on other platforms)? I need to wrap
> some lines that I'm showing on a terminal and I'd rather use the real
> terminal's width instead hardcoding it to 80 characters or so.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Juanjo
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