[pacman-dev] Multiple progress bars not compatible with dumb terminals

miha at kamnitnik.top miha at kamnitnik.top
Tue Jun 29 09:23:34 UTC 2021


On less capable terminals, pacman should probably display only one
active progress bar simultaneously.

An example of such a terminal is Emacs's M-x shell ($TERM == "dumb"). It
can't display the additional "total" properly because it doesn't
implement cursor movement.
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