On Sat, Mar 25, 2017 at 09:55:14PM +0200, Amer wrote:
> > It is a bug in st and xterm. tmux and screen handle it by
> > reflowing lines, wrapping them if necessary.
>
> ... And this tmux wrapping is thoroughly broken.
> E.g. https://github.com/tmux/tmux/issues/516
>
> > dvtm makes end of lines invisible [1] but keeps them in memory.
>
> But this idea seems reasonable, as standalone from scrollback.
> No cropping ever. Ah, how it sounds...
Ok, I sent patch to ML, you can test it now.
> And what $COLUMNS will you report to term apps?
> Some of them (like ps) crop their output themselves.
> Some (like cat /proc/self/maps) align data columns on term width.
> So, desired effect still won't be achieved.
> But if you change $COLUMNS it will break much more of other apps.
No doubt COLUMNS should report current size.
Received on Sat Mar 25 2017 - 21:09:50 CET