On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 5:32 AM, Martin Natano <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 10:57:36AM +0100, Marc Espie wrote: >> >> So, does it make sense to put COLUMNS and SIZE forward ? >> I think this is the first important question to ask... >> >> (I remember having COLUMNS and LINES hardcoded in my old, old .profile >> around SunOS4... we can probably assume this is gone now) >> > > This is still useful when working over a serial line. I sometimes use > COLUMNS/LINES for vi over the qemu serial console. >
calling resize(1), ignoring its output, isnt enough over serial line? over serial I just do $ resize; after resizing my xterm and everything works - and LINES and COLUMNS never get set in env
