Re: [Patch] Resizing shells in shell-mode

[Antoine Levitt]

And I did it again, sorry. Here is the original message :
Aww, I can't believe I haven't thought about this earlier. You're right, of course. I'm sorry for not thinking this through
(this problem also occurs with shell-copy-environment-variable, but I don't know how this is used so it may actually not be a problem)
Hmm, so, a solution would be to check for a prompt (there's already a
regexp to do just that) and only change columns when there's one on the
line (so it also matches prompts with a partially typed command) (bad,
might be noticeable under certain (rare) circumstances), or otherwise
change the value of $COLUMNS (better). I'm gonna check how
gnome-terminal and such things handle this.
Sorry again
Antoine


I think I have found the solution, which is to send a TIOCSWINSZ ioctl to the tty. I'm not sure how to do that in elisp, and not sure how portable that will be.
Antoine

2008/5/24 Miles Bader <address@hidden>:

"Antoine Levitt" <address@hidden> writes:
> It's more serious when you take into account the fact
> that some other process (not a shell) might be running at that moment.
> Have you try M-x term instead of M-x shell?  It's a different tradeoff,
> but it should be able to accomodate window-size changes.
>
> Me:
> Well, that's the reason why the patch is to shell, not comint. Isn't shell
> the specialized mode for dealing with shells only ?

Shells are often running other programs...

Sending shell commands without an explicit user action is a bad idea,
don't do it.

-Miles

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