Thomas Dickey wrote on Wednesday, December 10, 2008 1:31 AM:: > On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 10:57:53AM -0500, Gustavo Seabra wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> I wonder if anyone else sees this. When I open an xterm, it all works >> fine with the default dimensions. But if I resize the terminal, line >> wrapping stops working until I return to the initial size. This was >> present in the old xterm, and persists after upgrading to the new >> one. > > that sounds like the "feature" in bash which makes it not pass on the > SIGWINCH signal, depending on bash's settings. (I should add it to > my ncurses faq, since the bash maintainer doesn't answer this > question) > >> Interestingly, if I have a file opened in vi when resizing, vi works >> quite well and wraps the lines correctly according to the terminal >> size. But when I get out of vi I get the same problems back :-( > > vi is probably doing the ioctl to check on the screensize...
Try the command "shopt -s checkwinsize" in bash. This causes bash to check the terminal size after every command and adjusts $LINES and $COLUMNS to the correct values. If that works, add it to your .bashrc Phil -- This email has been scanned by Ascribe PLC using Microsoft Antigen for Exchange. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/