Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!ut-emx!tivoli!robbie
From: robbie@tivoli.UUCP (robbie)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.open-look
Subject: Re: Resizing xterms running vi
Keywords: Openlook, X11/R3, xterm
Message-ID: <177@tivoli.UUCP>
Date: 8 Nov 90 20:06:01 GMT
References: <3391@ryn.esg.dec.com>
Reply-To: robbie@tivoli.UUCP ()
Organization: Tivoli Systems Inc., Austin, TX
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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.

You're lucky it works on anything but 24x80.  Try Interactive 386ix for
instance. I only got it to work because I had fixed bugs in the IBM
version of the source, and knew that ISC was the same source base at
one point in time.

sorry and good luck,
Robbie Robinette
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