Re: [bug-gtypist] Crash in Long QWERTY course in lesson R5

[Tim Marston]

Hi,

On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 01:19:57PM +0200, Felix Natter wrote:
> The problem is that lesson R5->(8) contains more than 20 lines
> (including header, instructions and footer):

Oh, it's *this* problem again.  :o(

> There are two ways to fix this:
> 1. We truncate the speedtest to <<20 chars.
> 2. You use a larger terminal (80x24).

We can't fix this -- at least, not easily -- but I wonder if we could
handle it more gracefully?  The error message is a bit unhelpful, but
we could improve it a lot by also telling the user:

 a) Exact information about what was wrong so that the user can fix the
    problem.  E.g.:

        This drill requires your terminal height to be at least <Y>
        lines.

    or:

        This drill requires your terminal height to be at least <X>
        columns wide.

 b) How to get back to where they were.  E.g.:

        To get back to where you were in GNU Typist, type:
        $ gtypist -l <LAST-LABEL>

What do you think?  Shall I add a bug report?

-- 
Tim Marston
ed.am