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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!lerc.nasa.gov!purdue!news.bu.edu!mi From: mi@cs.bu.edu (Mikhail Teterin) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: vidcontrol Date: 7 Sep 1995 22:02:09 GMT Organization: Computer Science Department, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA Lines: 26 Message-ID: <42nq51$8og@news.bu.edu> References: <42ig53$eh1@news.bu.edu> <42jq97$68l@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: csb.bu.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Some time ago (6 Sep 1995 11:39:51 +0200) honorable J Wunsch, residing at j@bonnie.heep.sax.de wrote: |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. :) Does that mean that the default (syscons) are not any more developed and the effort goes to pcvt only? Also, will pcvt lett me use my fonts and change colors (all that vidcontrol stuff)? How much bigger the kernel will be with pcvt (with no syscons)? |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). Will vi change eventually? Thanks! -mi -- И пусть никто не уйдёт обиженным... -- Why is that 2 o'clock all the time?! -- It is a manometer!!!