Thomas Wolff wrote: > LINES and COLUMNS are legacy mechanisms which may serve as a workaround if > the system doesn't otherwise handle screen size changes properly. They > should not be needed on modern systems where the tty driver maintains the > information.
Yep. > (You may note that mintty has not set them initially but they get set on > resize - by whatever means... - while in a cygwin console they are not used > at all.) Xterm and rxvt don't set them either. Bash sets them on receiving a SIGWINCH, but not at startup. Go figure. Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
