RFR: 8209937: Enhance java.io.Console - provide methods to query console width and height (original) (raw)

Martin Buchholz martinrb at google.com
Mon Aug 27 16:25:51 UTC 2018


History: I was always a little disappointed that Console (understandably) didn't support the things you could do with subprocesses in Emacs, like implement shell buffers and otherwise have expect-style conversations with subprocesses. But console dimensions was never on my radar - doesn't mean much in an Emacs shell buffer. Being able to reimplement Emacs in pure Java is of course the ever elusive Holy Grail. Of course, when I run java, it's usually living inside a shell buffer.



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