J William Piggott wrote:
As it turns out, no abbreviations were need to prevent (any further) breaking of 80 columns (the current comments are already broken).
OK, but I'd rather fix the comments rather than leave them broken.
There are only two countries with more than 24 local regions which could use a two column select menu: US and CA with 29 and 28 regions respectively.
There's also Russia, which in the current draft has 24 regions; this is one more line than fits comfortably on a 24×80 screen with a prompt line.
The current zone table comments for US and CA far exceed the ability to use a two column select menu.... The patch reduces MX Durango's length, but still exceeds the 76 character limit. This is the contents fault, not the format.
I think these all used to fit, and we can reword them to fit now. I looked through that patch and installed a good many of the changes, and reformatted the result so that tzselect menus fit on 24×80 again, at least with 'bash'. Some of the notation I found confusing (e.g., the ", (" syntax) so I substituted for it. This version is not 100% consistent, as it uses abbreviations more often in menus when the menus would otherwise fail to fit. Please see the attached patch, which I've installed on the experimental github repository.