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From: patl@Eng.Sun.COM (Pat Lashley [MtV NeWStech Eng.])
Newsgroups: comp.windows.open-look
Subject: Re: Resizing xterms running vi
Message-ID: <4nezfd5@openlook.Unify.Com>
Date: 9 Nov 90 01:06:18 GMT
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|>  In article <3391@ryn.esg.dec.com> sridhar@consl5.esg.dec.com (Pete Sridharan) writes:
|>  >
|>  >  I am running Openlook 2.0 of AT&T  on 386 running SVR 3.2.2:
|>  >
|>  >     Is there a way of setting resources so that xterms that are running screen 
|>  >     oriented programs like vi and (vannila) emacs can be resized.  It doesn't seem to
|>  >      allow window resizing for those programs.
|>  >
|>  >  Thanks in advance for your help.
|>  
|>  Nope, not unless you have source for emacs or vi.  I worked at IBM on
|>  AIX and fixed my own versions to deal with this properly.  I tried to
|>  get into the product but they wouldn't let me.  The only system I have
|>  seen that deals with this properly is Ultrix.  If you want to fix the
|>  code you can do it easily.  Just trap SIGWINCH(you ignore it by
|>  default), do an ioctl() on your pty to get the new size (xterm should
|>  blat this info into the pty whenever the size is changed), and then
|>  have the program do a re-init on curses for vi, or i-don't-know-what
|>  for emacs with the new size.  Other than that you are SOL.

GNU emacs (18.54) catches SIGWINCH and resizes properly under SunOS.