* Tony Mechelynck on Sunday, April 19, 2009 at 21:30:41 +0200
> On 19/04/09 20:52, Michael Henry wrote:
>> One advantage of GUI Vim not yet mentioned (if I've not
>> missed anything) is the ability to resize via Vim script.
>> In Gvim, I can execute the following:
>> 
>> :set columns=161
>> 
>> and the GUI window resizes to accommodate the 161
>> columns (which makes room for a pair of 80-column
>> vertical splits and the separating column between them).
>> 
>> I don't know how to make the equivalent behavior work
>> in console Vim.  Is there a way to configure either Vim or
>> the terminal emulator (or both) so that Vim can cause a
>> resize of the terminal emulator's number of columns or lines?
> 
> That depends on the console. In the Linux (true-text) console, in xterm 
> and (I think) in Windows, Vim can't resize the terminal AFAIK. OTOH, in 
> konsole, setting 'lines' and 'columns' does resize the terminal. In the 
> Mac's Terminal.app console, I don't know.

Terminal.app: no
xterm:        yes

c
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