[PATCH] birdc: wider columns in show protocol output

[Stefan Jakob]

On 10.08.16 16:09, andreas at rammhold.de wrote:
> On 22:06 09.08.16, Christian Tacke wrote:
>> Just for the record: Well, I use 80 columns most of the time.
> 
> Why not autodectet the width and if that fails default to whatever we
> have now?

+1

Guess doing it dynamically is a good option for terminal cli stuff.

If output is truncated by a limited term width, maybe a "truncate"
sign/character might help out.

Another idea: provide birdc flag to print the fields maximum elements. A
given delimter via extra flag/option could also make parsing of the
output easier, f.e. csv.

In midterm a lot of looking glass tools need a stable output "format".
So maybe there should be a strategy how the output thingy should change.

A json, xml or csv "renderer" would be nice.

For output parsing I prefer a more parseable output format  option,
instead of an improved screen scrapeable console output.

Just my couple of 50 cents ;-)

Rgds, Stefan