MultiSelect fails to render a long list about survey HOT 4 CLOSED

@AlecAivazis I recommend looking at Inquirer.js examples/long-list.js. It does not use all of the screen height to list the options, but offers a sliding window in e.g. 7 rows:

It could be offered as an option, it's not really necessary to me at least.

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@ahmetb thanks for the screenshots and pointing me to the example in inquirer. I'm not sure about the specific details of their implementation but my thinking is this - add a pageSize option to Select and MultiSelect and then show the minimum of that number and the terminal height. that way even if the developer specified a large number because the list is long, but the user has a terminal that is short, there isn't any potential for lost information (say if they turned a scrollback off).

Thoughts?

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Yeah that's tricky. I'd play with Inquirer to see how they handle this case if you want to get closer to their implementation.

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@ahmetb as of the v1.2.0 tag, the selects and multi-selects should be paginated with a default value of 7 - lemme know if you run into any more issues

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