GnuPG incompatible with the 80x25 terminal?

Anton Shepelev anton.txt at gmail.com
Fri Sep 11 14:49:09 CEST 2026


Jakob Bohm:

> Another solution is to reformat and rephrase the help
> screen to fit in 24 lines (25 lines minus 1 used for the
> next prompt).  This may involve creative use of columns
> and word choices.

I don't think it is a good solution of GnuPG, because it is
hard to maintain, is not scalable, and is not always
actually possible, e.g as the number of commands grows.
With potentially long key listsings, it is already the case,
cf. the undocumeted `list' command.

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