On 6/21/19 12:03 PM, Mick wrote:
I seem to have this enabled, as far as the GUI shows, along with reverse
wraparound
If it's enabled (checked) in XTerm's menu, then the feature is enabled.
not sure what the reverse wraparound does.
"reverse wraparound" is when you backspace off the left side of one line
and the cursor goes to the far right of the line above.
However, lines do not wrap around when I resize the xterm window. :(
I've never seen this work inside of XTerm.
I /have/ seen screen (running in XTerm) reflow the text when the window
is resized. But that is /screen/ doing it, not XTerm. And by doing it,
it's creating new data for XTerm to display.
Well, when I anything, I tried shrinking the window width and when
it became narrower than my bash prompt then the prompt only started
wrapping around!
That's the shell reacting to the new terminal window width. (Much like
screen above.)
The rest of the content (I had just run the 'ls' command) would not change
from its originally displayed line width.
XTerm (and many other consoles) only display the output as it was given
to them. They don't change the output when the window changes. So if
they are given 80 characters of text on one line and 35 on the next
line, XTerm (et al.) display those two lines of text, even on a wider
window.
XTerm is not aware (cognizant of the fact) that the 80 characters and
the 35 characters are related to each other.
If you resize the window smaller, XTerm drops the characters between the
new width and the old width that it had. It no longer has them to
display when you widen the window back out.
These are the flags I have installed x11-terms/xterm-337 with:
openpty truetype unicode -Xaw3d -toolbar -xinerama
The same problem applies to other xterm based terminals, on various
installations of mine, but as I mentioned rxvt works as I expect/prefer. :-/
I am not, and have not, been aware of an XTerm option to reflow the text
when widening (or narrowing) the window.
