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- From: hansm@cs.kun.nl (Hans Mulder)
- Subject: Re: How can I resize Elvis in a xterm window?
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- Organization: University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- References: <1992Oct21.131950.16914@ugle.unit.no> <1992Oct23.145352.6439@Celestial.COM> <1992Oct28.073011.17480@ugle.unit.no> <ellis.721949068@nova>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 13:32:11 GMT
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- In <ellis.721949068@nova> ellis@nova.gmi.edu (Stew Ellis) writes:
- >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?).
-
- It's spelled SIGWINCH.
-
- I have tested vi variants. The one that comes with SunOS 4.0.x does react
- to SIGWINCH; the one that comes with 4.1.x doesn't. Weird, but true.
-
- Sun's explanation is that the "new" version of vi (since when does SVR3.1
- count as "new" ???) is 8-bit clean and the other one isn't. And who would
- run X windows on a Sun anyway :-?
-
- --
- Hope this helps,
-
- Hans Mulder hansm@cs.kun.nl
-