Can index lines be wrapped?

Chris Green cl at isbd.net
Sat Aug 14 08:30:37 UTC 2021


On Sat, Aug 14, 2021 at 08:56:37AM +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> On 13Aug2021 08:17, Chris Green <cl at isbd.net> wrote:
> >On Fri, Aug 13, 2021 at 08:15:26AM +0200, Alexander Dahl wrote:
> >> On Thu, Aug 12, 2021 at 08:30:11AM +0100, Chris Green wrote:
> >> > I read my mail (via ssh) on quite a variety of devices, one is an
> >> > Android phone running termux which has rather short lines which
> >> > truncate much of the subject in index view.
> >> >
> >> > I could rearrange the index_format but that would change it for all my
> >> > viewing devices and I don't really want to do that, and anyway I'd
> >> > still lose some information.
> >>
> >> What about a macro or shortcut to toggle between different settings?
> >>
> >That's possible but it's just one more thing that one has to to
> >manually which isn't really necessary.
> 
> I always invoke via a script (named "+") which has assorted 
> figure-it-out logic before invoking mutt. You could sniff the terminal 
> size and choose a narrower index_format for narrow terminals. (_And_ 
> bind that to a keyboard toggle macro as well if you wanted.)
> 
> I've got a ttysize script which does this:
> 
>     stty -a </dev/tty \
>     | sed -n '
>           s/.* rows \([0-9][0-9]*\); columns \([0-9][0-9]*\).*/\2 \1/p
>           t
>           s/.*; *\([0-9][0-9]*\) rows; *\([0-9][0-9]*\) columns.*/\2 \1/p
>           t'
> 
> but I'm sure there must be a more direct way.
> 
> Anyway, given the tty width you could make a choice about index_format.
> 
Yes, of course some sort of wrapper could handle it.  "stty -a" works
perfectly well in termux on Android, gives me 48 columns by default.

Thanks

-- 
Chris Green


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