FreeTDS Development Group

["James K. Lowden" <jklowden AT schemamania.org>]

On Thu, 31 Oct 2002 10:25:53 +0100, ZIGLIO Frediano
<Frediano.Ziglio AT vodafoneomnitel.it> wrote:
> I have decided a tabstop of 8 for terminal reason and now we want a line
> length of 132 ???
> I don't understand...
> I know I can reformat for print and I can use editor other than vi (I
> don't like a line broken into two line of screen)... so limit of 80 is
> not mandatory for me...

I'm looking at bcp.c because I'd like freebcp to understand the "-e"
switch.  bpc.c v 1.33 doesn't vaguely conform to our standards.  It has
some pretty complicated nesting (which I don't see any better way to do),
so as an experiment, I tried indent on it.  

It was better, because it K&R'd the braces, putting more code on the
screen.  But the code got pretty ugly e.g., 

    tds_get_conversion_type(bcpcol->
                            db_type,
                            bcpcol->
                            db_length);
                                    ^^^ "t" is in column 80

Using 132, the code looked much more natural.  I tried squishing my
tabstop to 3.  It made the max line about 90 long, but I couldn't keep
track of the nesting in _bcp_read_hostfile.  So I set it back to 8 and
made the window wider.  That seems the best solution.

Frediano, I don't what you to switch editors just to work on FreeTDS code.
 Can't your terminal convert to 132 columns easily enough?  The attached
program emits the correct VT100 escape sequence.  

Regards, 

--jkl

#include <stdio.h>

main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
        char control_sequence[] = " [?3h";      /* set vt100 to 132 columns */
        control_sequence[0] = 27;               /* 27 is escape */
        
        /* if the program was invoked as "80" , set to 80 columns */
        if( strcmp( "80", argv[0]+strlen(argv[0]) -2 ) == 0 ) 
                control_sequence[sizeof(control_sequence)-2] = 'l';
        
        puts (control_sequence);
        
        return 0;
}