[pacman-dev] Broken pacman output when resizing

[Andrew Gregory]

On 11/29/15 at 01:14pm, Constantin Weißer wrote:
> Hi there!
> 
> As probably everyone noticed one time or the other, pacman output (in
> particular progress bars) breaks whenever one resizes the terminal,
> which leads to scrambled output like this:
> 
> https://paste.xinu.at/LNo/plain
> 

If you just want to narrow pacman's output, you can use the COLUMNS
environment variable:

 COLUMNS=80 pacman -Ss foo

apg