How do I get vi to know my window size?

Rob Landley rob at landley.net
Tue Sep 19 16:49:18 UTC 2006


On Monday 18 September 2006 10:54 pm, Dave Hylands wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm using busybox-1.1.2 under linux-2.6.17 on a gumstix.
> 
> When I run the vi from busybox over my serial line, it thinks that my
> terminal is 80x24

http://www.busybox.net/lists/busybox/2006-June/022850.html

As you discovered...

> If I ssh into the gumstix then running the above program reports the
> correct size, and running vi works as expected.

Because ssh is setting up a pty.

> My terminal type in both cases is vt100, and the TERM environment
> variable is set appropriately.

$TERM doesn't tell you size.

> So, is it possible to get the terminal size correct when using a serial
> port? 
> 
> Any insight would be appreciated.

Try:

stty columns 80 rows 25

Rob
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