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

[Felix Natter]

Tim Marston <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi,

hello Tim,

> 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(

lol

>> 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.

Makes sense and should be easy to do :-)

>  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>

This is more difficult. What we really need for a general solution is
something like this:

  $ gtypist x.typ -l <LABEL>

and that requires more awareness of which lesson we're in (something
that we wanted to do for 2.10, along with allowing to switch lesson
files from within gtypist).

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

IMO Yes, along with the "switch-lessons-from-within-gtypist" feature.

Kind Regards,
-- 
Felix Natter