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- From: ralp@db.erau.edu (Ralph E. Bugg)
- Newsgroups: comp.editors
- Subject: Re: How can I resize Elvis in a xterm window?
- Date: 17 Nov 1992 11:56:38 -0500
- Organization: Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, FL USA
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- References: <1992Oct21.131950.16914@ugle.unit.no> <1992Oct23.145352.6439@Celestial.COM> <1992Oct28.073011.17480@ugle.unit.no> <ellis.721949068@nova> <Bxv49o.9L0@sci.kun.nl>
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- hansm@cs.kun.nl (Hans Mulder) writes:
- >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 :-?
- Hey I do... and I like it alot more than OpenWindows...do to our machines
- having low memory OpenWindow takes up alot of time to load up. And if you
- want to run anything that is CPU intensive, well I should hafta tell you
- how much time and effort it takes...gee if you love OpenWindows so much
- then just use the texteditor that comes with it...
-
- >--
- >Hope this helps,
- >Hans Mulder hansm@cs.kun.nl
-
- BTW... I myself have never gotten vi on 4.1.x to work resizing either...
- but then I don't have a need to resize my windows...
-
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