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Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 05:48:53 +0100
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Subject: Re: Resizing a terminal window
From: Andy Koppe <andy DOT koppe AT gmail DOT com>
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Thomas Wolff wrote:
> LINES and COLUMNS are legacy mechanisms which may serve as a workaround if
> the system doesn't otherwise handle screen size changes properly. They
> should not be needed on modern systems where the tty driver maintains the
> information.

Yep.

> (You may note that mintty has not set them initially but they get set on
> resize - by whatever means... - while in a cygwin console they are not used
> at all.)

Xterm and rxvt don't set them either. Bash sets them on receiving a
SIGWINCH, but not at startup. Go figure.

Andy

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