On Sat, Jun 22, 2019 at 9:36 AM Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Saturday, 22 June 2019 08:52:56 BST Jorge Almeida wrote: > > > > However, > > my urxvt behaves as you describe, more or less: > > - open urxvt > > - cat some file with long enough lines > > - lines wrap > > - shrink window (horizontally) > > - contents are NOT redrawn (just like xterm) > > OK, we have a difference in behaviour here. In my urxvt lines longer than the > window shrinking width are redrawn and wrap into the next line. > > > > - restore window size > > Wrapped lines will now unwrap to take up the increasing window width. Unlike > xterm, no characters are truncated/lost in urxvt. > > > > - cat same file, etc > > - contents are now redrawn properly! > > > > It appears urxvt does the job by itself (minus what seems to be a bug) > > Jorge, your urxvt seems to work differently to my installations here. > Nevertheless, I'm coming to the conclusion xterm won't behave in the same/ > similar way as urxvt when it comes to redrawing its window contents. > Just to make sure there is no misunderstanding: the apparent bug only manifests itself the first time I do the shrinking/restoring stuff, after launching a urxvt window. Following tries will show the desired behaviour. Can you confirm it doesn't happen in your installation?
Jorge
