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Re: UMN Gopher - menu title length.

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Lawrence Woodman <lorrywoodman@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> It would be worth submitting a patch to alter the client's display so that
> it only takes 11 characters on the left hand side and makes the correct
> calculation.
> 
> As to whether you should reduce your menu titles to 67 characters is an
> interesting question and really points to how Gopher use has changed.
> When I used it in the 90s it was mainly used to download files and
> although I don't remember seeing this truncation I don't think it would
> really have been that much of an issue as I don't expect many lines were
> formatted in that way.  The formatting makes sense on your site and looks
> nice - it is curious how the 'i' itemtype isn't truncated in the same way
> by the client.
> 
> Perhaps submit a patch and see if it gets merged in.  Then wait until the
> major distributions have updated their packages and revert to 69
> characters.
> 
> Best wishes
> 
> 
> Lorry
> 

I'm not much of a C programmer and have very little experience using
ncurses, but I wrote a patch today. It works for me, but YMMV:
gopher://gopher.icu/0/files/0001-Removed-selected-item-indicator-from-left-margin-rep.patch

It can be applied to the latest source tree from here:
https://github.com/jgoerzen/gopher.git

I also wrote a brief phlog post about it for anyone who wants more info:
gopher://gopher.icu/0/phlog/Computing/UMN-gopher-revisited.md

Here is a screenshot of it with the changes:
gopher://gopher.icu/I/files/gopher-menu2.png

If people feel that this is an improvement, then I may submit the patch.
Any fixes or feedback gratefully received.

-- 

IanJ

gopher://gopher.icu

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  Re: UMN Gopher - menu title length. Lawrence Woodman <lorrywoodman@gmail.com> - 2025-02-28 09:03 +0000
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