Wrong number of column

[eeeXun]

problem

I use this setting to set ratio of lf automatically.

%{{
    w=$(tput cols)
    if [ $w -le 80 ]; then
        lf -remote "send $id set ratios 1:2"
    elif [ $w -le 160 ]; then
        lf -remote "send $id set ratios 1:2:3"
    else
        lf -remote "send $id set ratios 1:2:3:5"
    fi
}}

But after upgrading my system yesterday, the column always be 80. The command I type in lf %tput cols always get 80. No matter how I resize my terminal.

System version

OS: 5.15.2-arch1-1 bash: 5.1.8

[BachoSeven]

I believe the relevant change in your system is the latest ncurses version (also happened in mine after such update), which is v6.3-1

[BachoSeven]

@gokcehan I'm still experiencing this issue, can you reproduce the fact that %tput cols always returns 80 from lf?

[gokcehan]

@BachoSeven Sorry I thought your previous response was a solution. I didn't read it carefully. I can reproduce this on my machine as well. I'm marking this as a bug. An easy workaround is to use $ command instead:

${{
    w=$(tput cols)
    if [ $w -le 80 ]; then
        lf -remote "send $id set ratios 1:2"
    elif [ $w -le 160 ]; then
        lf -remote "send $id set ratios 1:2:3"
    else
        lf -remote "send $id set ratios 1:2:3:5"
    fi
}}

It might also be possible to export a variable with the number of columns before launching lf and use that variable in the command instead of running tput cols.

[BachoSeven]

@gokcehan Thanks very much for the workaround; will update the wiki example for now since it might be an issue or change of behaviour with ncurses and not with lf.

If I got your final comment correctly, what you're saying is that since we don't use the async % we could export a variable before launching lf in order to speed things up; however I just realised that, at least in bash and zsh, that is already being done by the shell, and was able to do %echo $COLUMNS successfully from within lf. So an alternative (for those using zsh/bash at least, so will not put this in wiki for now) could be:

%{{
    w=$COLUMNS
    if [ $w -le 80 ]; then
        lf -remote "send $id set ratios 1:2"
    elif [ $w -le 160 ]; then
        lf -remote "send $id set ratios 1:2:3"
    else
        lf -remote "send $id set ratios 1:2:3:5"
    fi
}}

[gokcehan]

I have now added $lf_width and $lf_height variables so the following should work now:

cmd recol %{{
    if [ $lf_width -le 80 ]; then
        lf -remote "send $id set ratios 1:2"
    elif [ $lf_width -le 160 ]; then
        lf -remote "send $id set ratios 1:2:3"
    else
        lf -remote "send $id set ratios 1:2:3:5"
    fi
}}

Closing this issue now. Feel free to report if there's an issue.