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- From: ellis@nova.gmi.edu (Stew Ellis)
- Subject: Re: How can I resize Elvis in a xterm window?
- Message-ID: <ellis.721949068@nova>
- Sender: news@zip.eecs.umich.edu (Mr. News)
- Organization: GMI Engineering&Management Institute, Flint, MI
- References: <1992Oct21.131950.16914@ugle.unit.no> <1992Oct23.145352.6439@Celestial.COM> <1992Oct28.073011.17480@ugle.unit.no>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 21:24:28 GMT
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- bgitv@termo.unit.no (Baard Grimsmo) writes:
-
- >In article <1992Oct23.145352.6439@Celestial.COM> bill@Celestial.COM (Bill Campbell) writes:
- >>In <1992Oct21.131950.16914@ugle.unit.no> bgitv@termo.unit.no (Baard Grimsmo) writes:
- >>
- >>:Is it possible to make Elvis(-1.6) resizing itself into the new window
- >>:when the xterm is resized by pulling its corner with the mouse?
- >>
- >>:After resizing the window my Elvis does not know the available number
- >>:of lines, and I have to quit Elvis and restart after I have increased/
- >>:decreased the number of lines.
- >>
- >>Generally you need to have something which does:
- >> eval `/usr/bin/X11/resize`
- >>
- >>This should set your TERMCAP, LINES, and COLUMNS environment
- >>variables appropriately for the current size of the xterm
- >>window. This must be done BEFORE starting elvis since it
- >>probably isn't aware of the X environment.
- >>
- >>:My vi-editor automatically changes and "fills" the new window size.
- >>
- >>Bill
- >>--
- >This is actually only an answere to half of my question.
-
- >Using "resize" only helps if it is used before Elvis is started.
-
- >My problem is to make Elvis resize inside a xterm window if the window is
- >stretched or shrinked using the mouse after Elvis is started.
- >Is it possible or not? My standard vi editor on my SGI-Indigo does!
-
- >Thanks for the help anyway.
- >Bard.Grimsmo@termo.unit.no
-
- One of the first tests I perform on an editor before I install it in the the
- /usr/local/bin/ directory of our Sun is whether it behaves properly when an
- X term is resized. Jove, joe and emacs do. I have not tried any vi
- variants. It is a matter of testing for the signal TCGETWINSIZE (sp?).
-
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