From: Andrej Borsenkow <Andrej.Borsenkow@mow.siemens.ru>
To: <zsh-workers@sunsite.dk>
Subject: Re: terminfo values (was Re: do I win the "most pointless use of ZSH" award? ;))
Date: Sun, 6 May 2001 09:03:27 +0400 (MSD) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.SV4.4.33.0105060900120.17046-100000@itsrm2.mow.siemens.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010430164249.A18287@dman.com>
On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, Clint Adams wrote:
> > COLUMNS and LINES aren't immediately updated for me when I change text
> > mode resolutions. Is there something I should do to make them as
> > reliable as the tput values?
>
> This reminded me that a SIGWINCH will update $COLUMNS and $LINES,
> and therefore tput and $COLUMNS and $LINES will be more reliable
> than echotc/echoti/$termcap/$terminfo.
>
I don't see this as a problem for $termcap/$terminfo. They are supposed to
return static values from external database; so far you have the same
problem when using original functions (tgetstr etc). E.g. curses has
special variables that held current lines/columns values.
-andrej
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2001-04-30 20:42 ` Clint Adams
2001-05-06 5:03 ` Andrej Borsenkow [this message]
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