Re: Buffer corruption when the terminal is resized.

[Chet Ramey]

On 6/12/17 9:49 PM, Paul Peet wrote:

> Yes, indeed, rewrapping the contents on resize breaks this assumption.
> 
> Given that in a(n obviously non-representative) poll about 1.5 years
> ago at https://opensource.com/life/15/11/top-open-source-terminal-emulators,
> terminal emulators that now (not at the time of the poll) rewrap on
> resize got around 50-60% of the votes, maybe it's time for
> readline/bash to reconsider their assumptions.

The problem with reconsidering this assumption is that it leaves you with
no recourse but to move to a new line (and who knows, it may be a line
containing newly-wrapped text) and just do a fresh redraw when you get a
SIGWINCH.  That's going to leave even more text on the screen than now, for
gains only in pathological cases.

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