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Subject: Re: X and gnu emacs problem
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Date: Sat, 21-Mar-87 13:36:13 EST
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In article <1462@hplabsc.UUCP> mayer@hplabsc.UUCP (Niels Mayer) writes:

]Perhaps  gnuemacs  should  explicitly set  TERM to  the correct width
]before  executing  programs  in  subshells?   MHE should probably set
]the screenwidth in $TERM before calling scan.

You mean TERMCAP rather than TERM (probably TERM should be set to
something like 'emacs', just so programs that like to look up
terminals on their own can't find anything that is wrong).  This is an
interesting point.

It's not exclusively an X problem, although it's more likely to be a
problem under a window system than otherwise.  Conceivably, whenever
the size of the shell buffer changes, emacs could send a SIGWINCH to
the shell (this is a 4.3BSD-ism, so other folks will be out of luck).

Robert^Z