How do I get vi to know my window size?

[walter harms]

sound good for me, where can i get it ? :)

re,
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Paul Fox wrote:
> rich wrote:
>  > On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 07:49:33PM -0400, Rob Landley wrote:
>  > > Anyway, I can teach bbsh that when it's launched
>  > > interactive, do the probing thing if standard querying
>  > > doesn't work to determine terminal size.  That'll set $LINES
>  > > and $COLUMNS for its child programs, and svn 16167 should
>  > > theoretically be able to take it from there...
>  > 
>  > How do you avoid eating (and possibly choking on) user
>  > keystrokes already in the input buffer?  The only way I can
>  > think to avoid that is with some sort of tricky extra
>  > buffering layer.  Maybe it doesn't matter but I find it
>  > annoying if I've typed ahead before a program starts and some
>  > of the keystrokes get lost.
> 
> i agree.  this certainly reinforces that this feature should be
> very optional.
> 
> i'm a little surprised that rob thinks it should be in the shell. 
> in the absence of LINES and COLUMNS settings, programs that care
> should all be asking the driver.  so it doesn't have to be a
> parent process that determines the size.  in fact, if the parent
> shell sets and exports LINES and COLUMNS, it seems like this will
> only make it harder to deal with window size changes later on. 
> i'd vote for creating a separate applet (much like x11's resize)
> which can be invoked manually or from .profile or wherever.
> 
> paul
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