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Re: [Lynx-dev] lynx sigwinch (terminal resizing)
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Zephaniah E. Loss-Cutler-Hull |
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Re: [Lynx-dev] lynx sigwinch (terminal resizing) |
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Mon, 18 May 2015 04:58:52 -0500 |
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On 05/11/2015 05:14 PM, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 01:33:29PM +0000, address@hidden wrote:
>> Hi,
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>> I use mlterm and lynx does not perform automatic resizing (mutt does).
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>> 2.8.9dev.6, ncurses 5.9.20150502(wide)
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>> By design, not supported, compitation option?
> Actually the first. Back when I suggested automatically handling
> SIGWINCH, the other developers objected to it (mostly a matter of
> preference, as I recall).
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> There are technical issues: if you repaint a screen, it clobbers form
> contents (because the page reloads), and if not cached it forces Lynx to
> reread the page from the remote site.
How about having it simply do what ctrl-L does?
It may not reflow, but it would still leave the screen in a (slightly)
better state.
Regards,
Zephaniah E. Loss-Cutler-Hull.
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