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From: pete@TIRS.oz.au (Peter Bartel)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: resizing shelltool containing vi
Message-ID: <1991Mar6.235858.1052@TIRS.oz.au>
Date: 6 Mar 91 23:58:58 GMT
References: <1991Mar06.034658.17775@convex.com>
Organization: International Railroad Systems (Electronics)
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From article <1991Mar06.034658.17775@convex.com>, by tchrist@convex.COM 
(Tom Christiansen):
> From the keyboard of pete@TIRS.oz.au (Peter Bartel):
> :I want to be able to resize an OpenWindows shelltool/cmdtool in
> :which I'm running vi (on SunOS 4.1). A crude fix would be sufficient
> :such as:
> :    1 resize the window
> :    2 quit vi
> :    3 restart vi at the same location in the file from where I quit
> :
> :But how can steps 2 and 3 be automated? Or is there a nicer
> :solution?
> 
> Your vi should catch the SIGWINCH and recompute your screen size.
> You shouldn't ahve to do anything.
> 
Unfortunately, this lack of automatic readjustment is a documented bug in
SunOS 4.1
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