On 2015-12-16 13:02:25 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> > If we really want to we could basically directly use
> > _rl_get_screen_size() - which seems to have been present from before
> > 4.0. It's not declared static...
>
> Nah, I don't think we should rely on calling undocumented internal
> readline functions.
Agreed.
> We've lived with this behavior for long enough
> that I don't think it's a catastrophe if we don't fix it for ancient
> readline releases.
Yes.
> I think the most reasonable way to handle this is to put the
> call into a new function exported from input.c, where it can be
> made conditional on useReadline.
Sounds good.
> Does anyone object to back-patching it?
Not here.
