Walter Landry <wlan...@caltech.edu> writes: > When running emacs in X, if I run M-x term, then the COLUMNS > environment variable is not set correctly. I think that this is > because there is a half-width space on the left and right sides of the > window. There may also be a scrollbar. So COLUMNS will be too big by > one or two. > > When I run emacs in a terminal, COLUMNS is set correctly, since it > does not have to worry about the half-width spaces or scrollbar. > > This causes problems if you want to run applications like aptitude, > because aptitude writes characters all the way to the right side of > the screen. It also causes problems if I ssh into a remote machine > and run emacs there.
Can you describe a way to reproduce this? I tried running M-x term in an X emacs with a scrollbar, and COLUMNS was set to 80, and there were in fact 80 columns. Thanks -- Rob Browning rlb @defaultvalue.org and @debian.org GPG as of 2002-11-03 14DD 432F AE39 534D B592 F9A0 25C8 D377 8C7E 73A4 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
