Re: shopt -s checkwinsize gone?

[Wayne Topa <linuxtwo@gmail.com>]

On 02/23/2011 07:19 PM, Thilo Six wrote:
> Thilo Six wrote the following on 24.02.2011 01:11
>
> > Wayne Topa wrote the following on 23.02.2011 22:39
> >
> > > Hi Debainites
> > >
> > > I just tried, on a testing/unstable partition, the above command
> > > and it no longer works. It (shopt) is still shown in the bash 4.1-3
> > > man page so I would expect it to work.
> > >
> > > I have both bash and bash -completion 1:1.3-1 installed.
> > >
> > > Have I missed something obvious, again?
> > >
> > > TIA
> > >
> > > WT
> >
> > I am using squeeze but bash hasn´t been updated in unstable since and therefore
> > the versions are the same. Here it works:
> >
> > $ shopt -u checkwinsize
> > $ shopt | grep checkwin
> > checkwinsize    off
> > $ shopt -s checkwinsize
> > $ shopt | grep checkwin
> > checkwinsize    on
I get the same here as you have shown and

~$ shopt checkwinsize
checkwinsize    on

> PS. does
> $ \shopt -s checkwinsize
>
> work for you?
no
VT/dev/pts/4 wtopa@dj-SQUEEZE]
~$ \shopt -s checkwinsize

[VT/dev/pts/4 wtopa@dj-SQUEEZE]
~$

I haven't uses this in ages but IIRC shopt -s checkwinsize used to show 
the display size.

Thanks for checking & the reply.

Wayne