Re: changing terminal-width while program is running

[Sven Köhler]

> > > Please read the Bash FAQ, question E11.
> >
> > why is "checkwinsize" disabled by default? Does it have native side-effects?
>
> Because not everyone wants it.

Again: why would anybody not want it? The best reason would be negative 
side-effects, but you didn't mention any. So you could have kept 
everything like it is for bash 2.x, but could have changed the default 
for bash 3.0, but now that it's realeased ...