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

[miha at kamnitnik.top]

Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> writes:

> On 29/6/21 7:23 pm, miha--- via pacman-dev wrote:
>> 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.
>> 
>
> For such terminals you can use "--noprogressbar", or set the equivalent
> in pacman.conf.
>
> Allan

Thanks.
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