There was no way for scripts to know the current size of the terminal,
which is essintial if they want to provide a good user experience even
without a window.
Manually editing interface-changes.rst is a giant maintenance pain that
causes merge conflicts all the time. Stop doing that nonsense and
instead have changes be written to files in DOCS/interface-changes. Also
remove that one sentence in changes.rst because it's just not true.
Christoph Heinrich