Re: [Patch] Resizing shells in shell-mode

["Antoine Levitt" <smeuuh@gmail.com>]

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And I did it again, sorry. Here is the original message :
Aww, I can't believe I haven't thought about this earlier. You're right, of
course. I'm sorry for not thinking this through
(this problem also occurs with shell-copy-environment-variable, but I don't
know how this is used so it may actually not be a problem)
Hmm, so, a solution would be to check for a prompt (there's already a regexp
to do just that) and only change columns when there's one on the line (so it
also matches prompts with a partially typed command) (bad, might be
noticeable under certain (rare) circumstances), or otherwise change the
value of $COLUMNS (better). I'm gonna check how gnome-terminal and such
things handle this.
Sorry again
Antoine


I think I have found the solution, which is to send a TIOCSWINSZ ioctl to
the tty. I'm not sure how to do that in elisp, and not sure how portable
that will be.
Antoine
2008/5/24 Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>:

> "Antoine Levitt" <smeuuh@gmail.com> writes:
> > It's more serious when you take into account the fact
> > that some other process (not a shell) might be running at that moment.
> > Have you try M-x term instead of M-x shell?  It's a different tradeoff,
> > but it should be able to accomodate window-size changes.
> >
> > Me:
> > Well, that's the reason why the patch is to shell, not comint. Isn't
> shell
> > the specialized mode for dealing with shells only ?
>
> Shells are often running other programs...
>
> Sending shell commands without an explicit user action is a bad idea,
> don't do it.
>
> -Miles
>
> --
> `To alcohol!  The cause of, and solution to,
>  all of life's problems' --Homer J. Simpson
>

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