Re: ncurses problem

[Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>]

On 2018-09-29 11:02 +0000, Grzesiek Sójka wrote:

> On 9/28/18 9:44 AM, Sven Joachim wrote:
>>
>> Actually it is exactly the other way around.  If LINES and COLUMNS are
>> set in the environment, then the ncurses library will _not_ update the
>> screen size upon receiving SIGWINCH, and that causes the behavior
>> Grzesiek observed.  This is documented in ncurses(3).
>
> It seems that the problem is not related to the environment:
>
> # set | egrep 'LINE|COL|BASHOPTS'
> BASHOPTS=checkwinsize:cmdhist:complete_fullquote:expand_aliases:extquote:force_fignore:hostcomplete:interactive_comments:login_shell:progcomp:promptvars:sourcepath
> BASH_LINENO=()
> COLORTERM=truecolor
> COLUMNS=119
> LINES=84
> # ssh localhost
> # set | egrep 'LINE|COL|BASHOPTS'
> BASHOPTS=checkwinsize:cmdhist:complete_fullquote:expand_aliases:extquote:force_fignore:hostcomplete:interactive_comments:login_shell:progcomp:promptvars:sourcepath
> BASH_LINENO=()
> COLUMNS=119
> LINES=84

You need to look at the output of env(1) instead.  By default bash does
not export LINES and COLUMNS, so they are not visible in child programs:

,----
| % bash
| $ echo $LINES
| 52
| $ dash
| $ echo $LINES
| 
`----

Cheers,
       Sven