Re: [Quilt-dev] Term::ReadKey in test/run

[Andreas Gruenbacher]

On Friday 23 September 2005 12:21, Jean Delvare wrote:
> > We appear to have forgotten about this one.  Your suggestion is simple
> > and effective; it has my vote.
>
> I was under the impression that Andreas didn't like it, which is why I
> never committed it to CVS. I still have it applied locally.
>
> IIRC, Andreas had something more complex in mind. I don't think the
> additional work and maintenance effort is worth the benefit, but I also
> seem to recall that Andreas is using the same script elsewhere and did
> not want to have to maintain several copies separately. Thus I will not
> apply this patch without an explicit approval from Andreas.

It's not that important. I'm fine with either hardcoding the screen width to 
80 or making it a command line option. I expect that nobody will use the 
latter anyway, so we can as well use the simple way out.

Thanks,
Andreas.