On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 7:39 PM, Gautam Iyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 03:32:56PM -0500, Ritesh Kumar wrote:
>
> > I saw a peculiar resizing behavior with mrxvt and here is how one can
> > reproduce it:
> >
> > In a _new_ mrxvt, fill the window *partially* with some command (a
> couple of
> > ls's will do the trick). Then vertically resize (shrink) it. The content
> at
> > the bottom of the window disappears... and it doesn't reappear if the
> window
> > is vertically expanded back.
> >
> > However, in a new mrxvt, fill the window *fully (let some text scroll)*
> with
> > some command (a couple of ls -lha's will do the trick). Then vertically
> > resize (shrink) it. Now, the content at the top of the window disappears
> ...
> > and it reappears if the window is vertically expanded back.
> >
> > Why is the resize behavior different in these two cases? I think the
> > second behavior is desirable even in the first set of circumstances.
> > Is this a bug?
>
> This is a bug. Thanks for pointing it out. Hopefully I'll be able to fix
> it in the near future.
>
> > If not, what can I do to enable the second behavior throughout?
>
> Any chance you're willing to help fix bugs... :)
>
Sure... I will look into it. However, as morpheus once said: "Time is always
against us...".
>
> > Of course horizontal resizes always loses content from the right. Is
> > it conscious design decision to not reflow the text content in the
> > window again?
>
> Yes losing horizontal content (was) a design decision of rxvt, and we've
> not put the effort into changing it. It would be desirable not to lose
> the info, but changing the code to do accommodate this would be quite
> cumbersome (i.e. I don't see myself doing it in the near future). We
> welcome patches :).
>
Yup, this seems to be non-trivial. I will look into this too.
_r
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