mwoehlke, le Wed 31 May 2006 17:19:15 -0500, a écrit : > Kenneth Nellis wrote: > >mwoehlke wrote: > >>Kenneth Nellis wrote: > >>>I'm not seeing the LINES and COLUMNS environment variables getting > >>>updated > >>>correctly after resizing my terminal window. This occurs whether I'm > >>>using > >>>rxvt or xterm. Furthermore, "echo $COLUMNS" and "printenv COLUMNS" don't > >>>agree. (I didn't see relevant articles in the archives.) > >>> > >>>This occurs regardless of how "shopt -s checkwinsize" is set. > >> > >>FWIW, on *my* Cygwin, LINES and COLUMNS aren't even set... go figure. > >>:-) > > > >Same here...I do my own export to get things started. --Ken > > Wait, wait, step back... this in itself sounds like a problem.
export COLUMNS is needed for printenv COLUMNS to work, since in the printenv case you need the variable to be transferred to the child printenv process. Samuel -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/