Re: terminal width

[Ray Andrews <rayandrews@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2026-04-02 16:22, Alexis wrote:

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>       My apologies if i'm not correctly understanding what you're after,
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>       ansifilter(1):
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>       https://manpages.debian.org/trixie/ansifilter/ansifilter.1.en.html
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>       can strip ANSI escape sequences, and sed(1) could e.g. convert
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>       tab to a single space. 
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    Thanks, that's basically what I'm after.  Seems there are a few
    solutions.  'less -SREX' can do  it, and that's working here now. 
    Also Stephane Chazelas shows this:
    
nowrap() {
  [ -t 1 ] && tput rmam
  "$@"; local ret="$?"
  [ -t 1 ] && tput smam
  return "$ret"
}
alias nowrap='nowrap '

... tho I haven't tried that yet.  But Stephane is always right.
    
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