From ea9aaee8c756e1663b6bb5169811b1bc4764ab11 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@justemail.net>
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2016 22:25:52 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] statusbar: leave out the brackets when the message is very
 long

This also prevents the message from spilling into the help lines
when the terminal is less than four columns wide.  (Not that one
can read anything then, but it looks better.)
---
 src/winio.c | 18 +++++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/winio.c b/src/winio.c
index 13ae8ca1..67e0cbf5 100644
--- a/src/winio.c
+++ b/src/winio.c
@@ -1958,6 +1958,7 @@ void statusline(message_type importance, const char *msg, ...)
     va_list ap;
     char *bar, *foo;
     size_t start_x;
+    bool bracketed;
 #ifndef NANO_TINY
     bool old_whitespace = ISSET(WHITESPACE_DISPLAY);
 
@@ -1993,24 +1994,27 @@ void statusline(message_type importance, const char *msg, ...)
 
     blank_statusbar();
 
-    bar = charalloc(mb_cur_max() * (COLS - 3));
-    vsnprintf(bar, mb_cur_max() * (COLS - 3), msg, ap);
+    bar = charalloc(mb_cur_max() * (COLS + 1));
+    vsnprintf(bar, mb_cur_max() * (COLS + 1), msg, ap);
     va_end(ap);
-    foo = display_string(bar, 0, COLS - 4, FALSE);
+    foo = display_string(bar, 0, COLS, FALSE);
     free(bar);
 
 #ifndef NANO_TINY
     if (old_whitespace)
 	SET(WHITESPACE_DISPLAY);
 #endif
-    start_x = (COLS - strlenpt(foo) - 4) / 2;
+    start_x = (COLS - strlenpt(foo)) / 2;
+    bracketed = (start_x > 1);
 
-    wmove(bottomwin, 0, start_x);
+    wmove(bottomwin, 0, (bracketed ? start_x - 2 : start_x));
     wattron(bottomwin, interface_color_pair[STATUS_BAR]);
-    waddstr(bottomwin, "[ ");
+    if (bracketed)
+	waddstr(bottomwin, "[ ");
     waddstr(bottomwin, foo);
     free(foo);
-    waddstr(bottomwin, " ]");
+    if (bracketed)
+	waddstr(bottomwin, " ]");
     wattroff(bottomwin, interface_color_pair[STATUS_BAR]);
 
     /* Push the message to the screen straightaway. */
-- 
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