| 1 | = VT Style Display = |
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| 3 | Users of jervt transitioning to barnowl may find barnowl's default formatting to be wasteful of screen real estate, especially on wide terminals. With a few quick configuration changes, BarnOwl's display can be set to emulate vt's output fairly closely. |
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| 5 | == Style Template == |
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| 7 | Download the attached style template perl file and place it in your .owl directory. |
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| 9 | == Startup Script Updates == |
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| 11 | Append the following settings into your .owl/startup script (or create it if it doesn't exist): |
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| 13 | |
| 14 | {{{ |
| 15 | #minimize the input space |
| 16 | set typewindelta 1 |
| 17 | set typewinsize 1 |
| 18 | |
| 19 | #owl users prefer that zephyrs get sent in tiny chunks |
| 20 | set edit:maxwrapcols 80 |
| 21 | |
| 22 | #import the style template |
| 23 | perl do "~/.owl/styletemplate.pl" |
| 24 | |
| 25 | #set the style template to be the default style. |
| 26 | set default_style mystyle |
| 27 | }}} |
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| 29 | == Comparison == |
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| 31 | [[Image(owlstyle.png,40%)]] [[Image(vtstyle.png,40%)]] |
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