Hi Collin, > > This needs thought first, because where on the Unix side you have > > two concepts: > > - winsize from the OS, > > - lines and columns from the terminfo description of $TERM, > > and the LINES and COLUMNS environment variables, > > on the Windows side you have only the Consoles. > > > > How are these concepts delimited (on the Unix side)?
IMO the documentation should tell the application writer: - when should tcgetwinsize be used? - when should $TERM be used? - when should $LINES, $COLUMNS be used? Three concepts. Which to use in which situations? > I've used GetConsoleScreenBufferInfo once in the past and it worked > fine in Wine atleast [1]. I don't use Windows so perhaps it wouldn't > work there. For programs that run in a Cygwin console one needs different code. See lib/isatty.c... Bruno
