Total Character Count On The Command Prompt

How do I increase the total character count on the command prompt?

Release 14 shortened this value to 79 total characters on a single line.
2004 shows around 80.
Earlier versions were much longer.


I created a single line output for the DIST command in R12, but it is now occupying two lines.

Is there a registry setting I can switch, or do I live with this truncated command line?


(this is NOT a screen resolution issue...)


Scot-65

 

Long standing pet gripe of mine. No, there's no way to do it.

 

The only way I know of is to make it (2) lines, using "\n" seperator.

Command: (setq P (strcat "This is a very long prompt line entry." "\n" "This
is the second line of this long prompt"))
"This is a very long prompt line entry.\nThis is the second line of this long
prompt"

Command: (prompt P)
This is a very long prompt line entry.
This is the second line of this long prompt

Bob

 

Aarghhhhhh...

I did not think so.

Thanks anyway, though.

Scot-65

 

:

Hi Eccad (Bob),

Thanks for your imput.

There are a few of us that set the total number
of command prompt lines showing to two or one. These people
tend to have thier LEFT hand near the [ESC] and [TEXTSCR]
keys (and not between thier legs to keep hand warm).

The single line return of the DIST command is for two liners.

I personally have three lines showing (R12 days...)
and my left hand is near the "Z" key
(Z is "Zoom", ZZ is "Zoom Previous",
space bar with left thumb is [Enter]...)


Scot-65