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
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