Re: fix for readline terminal size problems when window is resized with open pager

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: fix for readline terminal size problems when window is resized with open pager
Date: 2015-12-14 20:37:07
Message-ID: 20151214203707.GE2618@alvherre.pgsql
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Tom Lane wrote:
> I wrote:
> > Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)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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