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From: paul@eye.com (Paul B. Booth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: standards for windowing software?
Message-ID: <1990Oct23.162817.829@eye.com>
Date: 23 Oct 90 16:28:17 GMT
References: <1990Oct20.123109.7287@cs.dal.ca> <101950150@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com>
Reply-To: paul@eye.com (Paul B. Booth)
Organization: 3D/Eye Inc., Ithaca, NY
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In article <101950150@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com> bcripe@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com (Brian E. Cripe) writes:
>> I'm in the market for a Unix workstation and have been looking at the HP
>> 400 series machines.  Working with VUE I discovered that programs like
>> vi and more assume a 24x80 window and won't adjust to work with any
>> other size (for example, with a longer window they use only the top 24
>> lines).  I commented that this seemed like a pretty serious shortcoming.
>
>If the software you are running understands the LINES and COLUMNS environment
>variable (I believe both vi and more do), then it is simple.  After
>altering the size of your hpterm window you need to use the "resize"
>command to reset LINES and COLUMNS to their new values.  Do a "man resize"
>for details on how to use resize.
>

Resizing can also be done semi-automatically with something like this in each
user's .kshrc file (modify as needed for /bin/sh, /bin/csh):

  function vi
  {
    eval `/usr/bin/X11/resize -u 2>/dev/null`; /usr/bin/vi "$@"
  }

Hardly perfect (takes a little longer to startup & you need a function for
each command or variant (vi,view,more, etc) ), but it does ensure that the
window and vi are in sync whenever you start vi.
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Paul B. Booth  (paul@eye.com) (...!hplabs!hpfcla!eye!paul)
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