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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: vidcontrol
Date: 6 Sep 1995 11:39:51 +0200
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Mikhail Teterin <mi@cs.bu.edu> wrote:
><subj> does not do any stty changes when changes the number of lines
>(VGA_80x??) )-: Well, fine, I can alias around that.
>
>But then vi does not care about stty change -- if TERM says cons25 --
>that's it. elm checks for the actual number of lines and respects the
>change.
Perhaps you want to give pcvt a try? :-) It does handle all this kind
of stuff correctly, it even generates a SIGWINCH whenever you are
changing the geometry, so you can toggle back and forth between 25 and
40 lines or 80 and 132 columns from within an emacs session. :)
Otherwise, vi is perhaps picky and honours the window size structure
only when both, lines _and_ rows are being non-zero. I remember that
there were several programs of this kind (hence pcvt properly fills in
both parameters in the window size struct inside the kernel).
--
cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)