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From: sdk@shadow.twinsun.com (Scott D Kalter)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: vi triumphs over emacs! ("bug" in emacs)
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Date: 12 Sep 90 03:03:46 GMT
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I'm not sure about the philosophy of all this but it seems to me you
can probably just tell emacs what the window size is rather than
suspending, running stty rows, and foregrounding emacs.  To tell emacs
to change its screensize just use:

(set-screen-height <n>)

Where <n> is the appropriate number of rows.  

Back to philosophy,

If emacs were sent the SIGWINSZ automatically it seems all would be
fine(?).  I'm not sure I agree that emacs should be expected to go
exploring for possible changes in the terminal structure everytime you
foreground it.

Anyway, I hope my work-around provides temporary relief.

-sdk