Re: fix for readline terminal size problems when window is resized with open pager - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: fix for readline terminal size problems when window is resized with open pager
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Msg-id 20151214203707.GE2618@alvherre.pgsql
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In response to Re: fix for readline terminal size problems when window is resized with open pager  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: fix for readline terminal size problems when window is resized with open pager  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
> I wrote:
> > Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com> writes:
> >> The following patch deals with a long standing gripe of mine that the
> >> terminal frequently gets garbled so that when typing.
> 
> > Hm.  I wonder whether rl_resize_terminal() exists in every iteration
> > of libreadline and libedit.
> 
> Quick followup: rl_resize_terminal() exists in GNU readline at least as
> far back as 4.0 (released Feb 1999).  However, it doesn't seem to be there
> at all in libedit; I don't see it in OS X Yosemite's headers, anyway.
> So we'd need a configure test for this.

In libedit (NetBSD's at least) there is el_resize() which seems to do
the same thing.

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