On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 10:02:33PM +0100, Helmut Karlowski wrote: > > When I run for example an editor from a shell in a mintty-window and change > the window-size the editor is informed by a WINCH-signal. That is good. But > the shell it was started from does not know about the change, so after > exiting the editor the shell uses the old size. Could mintty send a > WINCH-signal to its direct child (-pgrp) perhaps? > > Of course for more complicated situations it could be difficult to inform > all involved processes when not all have the same pgrp, but it would be > better than nothing. > > Or do I miss something? > > -Helmut > bash at least has "shopt -s checkwinsize" to achieve what you want,
Cheers ... Duncan. -- 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
