Somehow use ($COLUMNS / $LINES) which will allow us to drop tput.

[dylanaraps]

I've doubled script speed by reducing tput usage to just tput lines and tput cols. We could remove tput altogether (This means dropping ncurses) if we can somehow find a quick and reliable way to get the values of these shell variables directly.

Scripts can't read these variables as they're shell variables and not environment variables. Here are the current ways I've found to set these variables in a script:

• eval $(resize) (Slow on vte based terminals)
• Sending the signal WINCH to the shell (I couldn't get this to work but I came across it multiple times when searching)

Any ideas?

[dylanaraps]

It turns out that ncurses which tput is a part of is a dependency of bash anyway. I'm closing this as the user will always have ncurses installed.