{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/jupyter/notebook/issues/1425","repository_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/jupyter/notebook","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/jupyter/notebook/issues/1425/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/jupyter/notebook/issues/1425/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/jupyter/notebook/issues/1425/events","html_url":"https://github.com/jupyter/notebook/issues/1425","id":153004322,"number":1425,"title":"Don't force 80x25 terminal size","user":{"login":"vincent-legoll","id":12657074,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/12657074?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/vincent-legoll","html_url":"https://github.com/vincent-legoll","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/vincent-legoll/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/vincent-legoll/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/vincent-legoll/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/vincent-legoll/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/vincent-legoll/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/vincent-legoll/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/vincent-legoll/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/vincent-legoll/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/vincent-legoll/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":7,"created_at":"2016-05-04T12:54:05Z","updated_at":"2016-05-09T10:36:38Z","closed_at":null,"body":"I'm trying to run some commands in a bash jupyter-notebook, and the output of those commands is tailored to the terminal size.\r\n\r\nIt appears that the terminal emulation layer of jupyter (terminado) defaults to 80x25 which is not always the right size.\r\n\r\nJupyter-notebook should try to have sensible values, so that the output is not line-mangled when not needed.\r\n\r\nsee screen capture here :\r\n\r\nhttps://bugs.launchpad.net/python-openstackclient/+bug/1577368/+attachment/4655196/+files/Capture%20du%202016-05-04%2008%3A40%3A00.png\r\n\r\nYou can see the difference in this picture, as the \"openstack\" command has a specific CLI parameter to make it workaround such automagic behaviour shortcomings. But I don't want to sprinkle all my notebook (which is for a basic user training) with unrelated parameters as that would confuse the students, and be ugly.\r\n\r\nI would like the one without \"--max-width\" to display as it would with that parameter.\r\n\r\nThis may also be related to https://github.com/jupyter/notebook/issues/46"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/jupyter/notebook/issues/comments/217831223","html_url":"https://github.com/jupyter/notebook/issues/1425#issuecomment-217831223","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/jupyter/notebook/issues/1425","id":217831223,"user":{"login":"vincent-legoll","id":12657074,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/12657074?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/vincent-legoll","html_url":"https://github.com/vincent-legoll","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/vincent-legoll/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/vincent-legoll/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/vincent-legoll/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/vincent-legoll/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/vincent-legoll/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/vincent-legoll/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/vincent-legoll/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/vincent-legoll/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/vincent-legoll/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2016-05-09T10:36:38Z","updated_at":"2016-05-09T10:36:38Z","body":"@takluyver: care to explain what you meant by \"can completely break things like tables\", because my experience (which led to this bug report) is the opposite. My tables are actually broken, and I want to fix them by allowing overrides to the default values, which will never be always right..."}}