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Re: [Bug-apl] How to set the screen width in APL interpreter


From: Christian Robert
Subject: Re: [Bug-apl] How to set the screen width in APL interpreter
Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2016 20:01:58 -0500
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      ⎕fio ¯8
200

undocumented ⎕fio ¯8 give you the window width,

Xtian.


On 2016-12-23 19:43, Kacper Gutowski wrote:
On Sat, Dec 24, 2016 at 12:14:41AM +0100, Alexey Veretennikov wrote:
I'm running GNU APL in the X terminal with geometry 48x15 (it is a small
screen). How could I set this width(48) to the GNU APL interpreter so it
will behave correctly on deletion of characters in long lines etc?

Setting print width affects line editing as well.  It should wrap
correctly if you set ⎕PW to the width of your terminal.

      ⎕PW←⍎↑⍎')HOST tput cols'

Sometimes I wish GNU APL did this automatically on WINCH.

-k




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