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require 'rib'

module Rib::Paging
  extend Rib::Plugin
  Shell.use(self)

  # --------------- Rib API ---------------

  # Print result if the it fits one screen,
  # paging it through a pager otherwise.
  def print_result result
    output = format_result(result)
    if one_screen?(output)
      puts output
    else
      page_result(output)
    end
  rescue StandardError, SyntaxError => e
    Rib.warn("Error while printing result:\n  #{format_error(e)}")
  end

  # `less -F` can't cat the output, so we need to detect by ourselves.
  # `less -X` would mess up the buffers, so it's not desired, either.
  def one_screen? output
    cols, lines = `tput cols`.to_i, `tput lines`.to_i
    output.count("\n") <= lines && output.size <= cols * lines
  end

  def page_result output
    less = IO.popen(pager, 'w')
    less.write(output)
    less.close_write
  rescue Errno::EPIPE => e
    Rib.warn("Error while paging result:\n  #{format_error(e)}")
  end

  def pager
    ENV['PAGER'] || 'less -R'
  end
end

Version data entries

1 entries across 1 versions & 1 rubygems

Version	Path
rib-1.2.1	lib/rib/extra/paging.rb