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Article #2476Re: How can I resize Elvis in a xterm window?
From: Ralph E. Bugg
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 16:56
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 16:56
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hansm@cs.kun.nl (Hans Mulder) writes: >In <ellis.721949068@nova> ellis@nova.gmi.edu (Stew Ellis) writes: >>One of the first tests I perform on an editor before I install it in the the >>/usr/local/bin/ directory of our Sun is whether it behaves properly when an >>X term is resized. Jove, joe and emacs do. I have not tried any vi >>variants. It is a matter of testing for the signal TCGETWINSIZE (sp?). >It's spelled SIGWINCH. >I have tested vi variants. The one that comes with SunOS 4.0.x does react >to SIGWINCH; the one that comes with 4.1.x doesn't. Weird, but true. >Sun's explanation is that the "new" version of vi (since when does SVR3.1 >count as "new" ???) is 8-bit clean and the other one isn't. And who would >run X windows on a Sun anyway :-? Hey I do... and I like it alot more than OpenWindows...do to our machines having low memory OpenWindow takes up alot of time to load up. And if you want to run anything that is CPU intensive, well I should hafta tell you how much time and effort it takes...gee if you love OpenWindows so much then just use the texteditor that comes with it... >-- >Hope this helps, >Hans Mulder hansm@cs.kun.nl BTW... I myself have never gotten vi on 4.1.x to work resizing either... but then I don't have a need to resize my windows... ralp@db.erau.edu -- +-------------------------------------------------+------------------------+ |You can get more of what you want with a kind | ralp@db.erau.edu | |word and a gun than you can with just a kind word|ralp%invalid@db.erau.edu| +-------------------------------------------------+------------------------+
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!walter!att-out!pacbell.com!ames!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!darwin.sura.net!erau!erau!not-for-mail From: ralp@db.erau.edu (Ralph E. Bugg) Newsgroups: comp.editors Subject: Re: How can I resize Elvis in a xterm window? Date: 17 Nov 1992 11:56:38 -0500 Organization: Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, FL USA Lines: 32 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <1eb886INN2ic@lambda.db.erau.edu> References: <1992Oct21.131950.16914@ugle.unit.no> <1992Oct23.145352.6439@Celestial.COM> <1992Oct28.073011.17480@ugle.unit.no> <ellis.721949068@nova> <Bxv49o.9L0@sci.kun.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: lambda.db.erau.edu