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: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
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 20:50:11
Message-ID: 5862.1450126211@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> 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.

Hmm. I see this in OS X's histedit.h:

void el_resize(EditLine *);

but it appears that this is part of a completely separate API with
essentially nothing in common with GNU readline. Not sure if we have
the motivation to try to support that API in parallel with readline's.
I sure don't.

regards, tom lane

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