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

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: fix for readline terminal size problems when window is resized with open pager
Date: 2015-12-08 20:02:55
Message-ID: 19119.1449604975@sss.pgh.pa.us
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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.

regards, tom lane

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