Resizing the terminal cuts off output

Marc Lehmann schmorp at schmorp.de
Wed Oct 21 00:34:38 CEST 2015


On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 04:01:50PM -0600, Joe Peterson <joe at wildlava.com> wrote:
> I've looked a little (but not enough yet) at the code where these two
> cases are handled, and I did wonder once or twice: is there a reason
> the case with no scrollback has to behave differently, or was the
> re-wrap code just never adapted to handle that case? If I have more
> time, I'll take another look at the code, especially if it's the
> latter.

Re-wrapping isn't something terminals traditionally do (probably only urxvt
does it), and it interferes with many "full-screen" applications. The reason
it's not done without scrollback is to make these apps work.

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