Re: [Patch] Resizing shells in shell-mode

[Jan Djärv]

Stefan Monnier skrev:

> Problem is: sending "export COLUMNS=%d" won't do the right thing if the
> process running currently isn't some bourne derivative.  E.g. if it's
> `csh' or some completely different process.

I think the right thing to do is to set the new size on the pty with ioctl 
TIOCSWINSZ and then send SIGWINCH to the inferior process.  AFAIK, shells 
react on that to set COLUMNS and LINES.  The signal is discarded by default so 
it does no harm if not caught.

        Jan D.