On Sat, Mar 25, 2017 at 09:55:14PM +0200, Amer wrote: > > It is a bug in st and xterm. tmux and screen handle it by > > reflowing lines, wrapping them if necessary. > > ... And this tmux wrapping is thoroughly broken. > E.g. https://github.com/tmux/tmux/issues/516 > > > dvtm makes end of lines invisible [1] but keeps them in memory. > > But this idea seems reasonable, as standalone from scrollback. > No cropping ever. Ah, how it sounds...
Ok, I sent patch to ML, you can test it now. > And what $COLUMNS will you report to term apps? > Some of them (like ps) crop their output themselves. > Some (like cat /proc/self/maps) align data columns on term width. > So, desired effect still won't be achieved. > But if you change $COLUMNS it will break much more of other apps. No doubt COLUMNS should report current size.
