I am still in the middle of making these changes, but I wanted to send what I had to the list right now for any comments. This weekend, I'll add 2 or 3 more patches for the last few changes and add them to this thread.
It's a lot of patches, but that's because I've tried to keep each patch small. The most interesing patch is the first one: introducing the structures and adding the reflow routines. So if you don't want to look at all the changes, please take a look at that one. The purpose of the patches is to centralize the screen drawing and calculation logic. Right now, that logic is distributed to every place that wants to update the screen. Meaning they all have to calculate based whether $status_on_top, or $help. And they all assume fixed positions for everything: so introducing a sidebar for example is dreadfully invasive. I am aware of curses windows and subwindows, but those have some trickiness involving refreshing and cursors, and would have been even more intrusive to use. This is fairly lightweight, and still simplifies the code. -- Kevin J. McCarthy GPG Fingerprint: 8975 A9B3 3AA3 7910 385C 5308 ADEF 7684 8031 6BDA http://www.8t8.us/configs/gpg-key-transition-statement.txt
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