Progress bars give many lines of output in Gnome Terminal

[matthewpwilson]

I've just noticed that when using Gnome Terminal (the default terminal on RHEL), progress bars give me a new line of output for each 'tick' rather than redrawing the screen: When using the embedded terminal in VSCode, progress bars work as expected.

I'm seeing this for both deploiy and push
It occurs while watching 'live' as well as when scrolling back through the output.

I think this is unlikely to be our problem however!

[markcocker]

For me on a Mac I have found this depends on the window width - if the widow is narrower than text on the progress bar message line you'll see this issue, however if the window is wider it works.

[matthewpwilson]

Ah yes I see the same behaviour.

[markcocker]

@matthewpwilson Shall I raise an issue against the Zowe CLI, or does this progress bar come from another project?

[matthewpwilson]

The progress bar stuff is part of imperative https://github.com/zowe/imperative/

[markcocker]

It looks like this could be a dupe of visionmedia/node-progress#184

[pcoop]

I can truncate the status message that gets added to the bar if we know what a reasonable maximum width is.