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

From Merlin Moncure
Subject Re: fix for readline terminal size problems when window is resized with open pager
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Msg-id CAHyXU0wHxvZECRjyLGvTg0YfzNOBEc30EaF25zUXw0ib_S3z2A@mail.gmail.com
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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  (Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com>)
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On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 2:02 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> 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.

All right, I guess this answers the question I was thinking, 'can this
be backpatched?' (basically, now).  I'll work up a configure test and
submit it to the appropriate commit fest.

merlin



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