large device major/minor numbers not supported
Roland Illig
roland.illig at gmx.de
Sat Jan 22 21:48:51 UTC 2005
MP wrote:
>> A harder question is _what_ to show on the screen for large device
>> numbers
>> as there's no room for more than 7 characters, so e.g. a 200,1000 doesn't
>
>
> What about widening the column?
> 7 characters are ok for 80x25 but if you run MC in terminal, you can
> have more ... I have 141x65 if I run it in fullscreen (or 211x75 with
> smaller font).
> So why not widen the column for larger resolutions? (100+ characters
> screen width can easily afford 10 characters for that column)
> You'll see device numbers in full and also more precise file sizes (with
> 10 character you'll see filesizes up to 10GB with 1 byte precision)
That's quite possible, but will require work on a new "layout algorithm"
that can handle an "optimal width" and "stretchability", similar to a
word processor program. But that's a little more work than my last
patch. But I can work on it.
Roland
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