A simple question with an easy answer: how many characters long is your terminal in full screen? I am working on a torrent searching script, and I am interested in the statistical max dimensions of a terminal. Thanks in advance.
A simple question with an easy answer: how many characters long is your terminal in full screen? I am working on a torrent searching script, and I am interested in the statistical max dimensions of a terminal. Thanks in advance.
Looks like by default, when not full screened PowerShell and Windows Terminal default to 120 characters wide. Full screen and terminals embedded in IDEs and the like give me: 187, 209, 236, and 237. That all depends on screen size, dpi settings, font size settings, zoom settings, etc.
Depending on the scripting language and the terminal host, there are usually a handful of ways to get this dynamically at runtime. .Net/PowerShell exposes this as
[Console]::WindowWidthfor most (but not all) hosts.There’s going to be wide variances in this, so I personally wouldn’t target some static value of how wide you expect it to be. In situations where I can’t just let the host’s word wrap handle long lines or let the scripting language handle it automatically (PowerShell’s
$ObjectList | Format-Table -Autosizeis nice for this), then I just I grab the current window width when I need it.I have a few “for fun” scripts that do ascii art animations, and they check the terminal’s height and width every frame, adjust the “image” as needed, then redraw at the current size.
My estimated max is 142 characters, so that all torrent info can be rendered. Thank you for your response.