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From: eggert@twinsun.com (Paul Eggert)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.open-look
Subject: Re: Resizing xterms running vi
Keywords: Openlook, X11, xterm, vi
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Date: 11 Nov 90 11:31:45 GMT
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guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) writes:

>1) if you resize the window, "vi" will resize its display, *even when
>   you're in insert mode*?

No, DEC et al. get this wrong, because they just copied 4.3BSD behavior.
This is better than Sun's disabling of SIGWINCH handling, because at least
window resizing works much of the time; but you're right, it's still buggy.