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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Control cursor position also at bottom of window Post 303043695 by Ralph on Tuesday 4th of February 2020 09:13:03 AM
Old 02-04-2020
Quote:
Originally Posted by wisecracker
Hi Ralph...

Take a look at the two command below.
The first will give you your terminal size in lines, columns.
IF your terminal can do it, (xterm for example), the second will auto adjust it for you...

Code:
term_size=($( stty size ))
printf "%b" "\x1B[8;24;80t"

The 24 and 80 in the 'printf' statement can be anything to ALMOST the size of your desktop...
Interesting. What do the outer parentheses around $(stty size) accomplish? I know they are used to force execution in a subshell. But what are they doing here?

I would have gone for
Code:
lines=$(stty size)
lines=${lines% *}

The printf statement doesn't seem to accomplish anything over here. What is it supposed to do? Is that documented somewhere?

In terms of documentation I was looking at this and this.
 

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MojoMojo::Formatter::Wiki(3pm)				User Contributed Perl Documentation			    MojoMojo::Formatter::Wiki(3pm)

NAME
MojoMojo::Formatter::Wiki - Handle interpage linking. DESCRIPTION
This formatter handles intra-Wiki links specified between double square brackets or parentheses: [[wiki link]] or ((another wiki link)). It will also indicate missing links with a question mark and a link to the edit page. Links can be implicit (like the two above), where the path is derived from the link text by replacing spaces with underscores (<a href="wiki_link">wiki link</a>), or explicit, where the path is specified before a '|' sign: [[/explicit/path|Link text goes here]] Note that external links have a different syntax: [Link text](http://foo.com). METHODS
format_content_order Format order can be 1-99. The Wiki formatter runs on 10. strip_pre Replace <pre ... with a placeholder reinsert_pre Put pre and lang back into place. format_content Calls the formatter. Takes a ref to the content as well as the context object. format_link <c> <wikilink> <base> [<link_text>] Format a wikilink as an HTML hyperlink with the given link_text. If the wikilink doesn't exist, it will be rendered as a hyperlink to an .edit page ready to be created. Since there is no difference in syntax between new and existing links, some abiguities my occur when it comes to characters that are invalid in URLs. For example, * [[say "NO" to #8]] should be rendered as "<a href="say_%22NO%22_to_%238">say "NO" to #8</a>" * [[100% match]] should be rendered as "<a href="100%25_match>100% match</a>", URL-escaping the '%' * but what about a user pasting an existing link, "[[say_%22NO%22_to_%238]]"? We shouldn't URL-escape the '%' or '#' here. * for links with explicit link text, we should definitiely not URL-escape the link: "[[say_%22NO%22_to_%238|say "NO" to #8]]" This is complicated by the fact that '#' can delimit the start of the anchor portion of a link. * "[[Mambo #5]]" - URL-escape '#' => Mambo_%235 * "[[Mambo#origins]]" - do not URL-escape * "[[existing/link#Introduction|See the Introduction]]" - definitely do not URL-escape Since escaping is somewhat magic and therefore potentially counter-intuitive, we will: * only URL-escape '#' if it follows a whitespace directly * always URL-escape '%' unless it is followed by two uppercase hex digits * always escape other characters that are invalid in URLs expand_wikilink <wikilink> Replace "_" with spaces and unescape URL-encoded characters find_links <content> <page> Find wiki links in content. Return a listref of linked (existing) and wanted pages. SEE ALSO
MojoMojo, Module::Pluggable::Ordered AUTHORS
Marcus Ramberg <mramberg@cpan.org> LICENSE
This library is free software. You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. perl v5.14.2 2010-05-23 MojoMojo::Formatter::Wiki(3pm)
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