From abe530e499c43d818e1ac77a24d4ab9e90b2a92b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bruce Hill Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2020 01:56:17 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Tweaking text. --- README.md | 10 ++++++---- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index c69a477..bdedf73 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -61,10 +61,12 @@ key handling can be improved slightly by polling with zero timeout. * Don't clear the screen unless you need to. It causes a lot of unnecessary redrawing. -* A good pattern to follow is: draw things from left to right, clearing to - the right after each item. Then, once everything has been drawn, clear - to the bottom of the screen. If you follow this approach, you won't have - to worry too much about the screen width of the things you're writing. +* A good pattern to follow is: draw things from left to right, clearing to the + right after each item. Then, once everything has been drawn, clear to the + bottom of the screen. If you follow this approach, you won't have to worry + too much about the screen width of the things you're writing. Also, the + terminal won't flicker, since you're never blanking the whole screen, only + part of a line at a time. * Text wrapping must be done manually, since many terminals do not support wrapping around to any point other than the first column, which is useless