base-[files|password] for 1.7

Christopher Faylor cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com
Tue Jul 29 18:00:00 GMT 2008


On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 05:18:32PM +0100, John Morrison wrote:
>On Tue, July 29, 2008 3:57 pm, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> On Jul 29 10:31, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>> On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 02:29:19PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>> >Chris, is there any good reason NOT to call send_winch_maybe on
>>> >a key event?
>>>
>>> It only makes sense when there is a mouse event.
>>
>> I don't understand that.  Mouse events typically don't happen.  I can
>> use the mouse as much as I want in a console window running vim, vim
>> never gets the SIGWINCH.
>>
>>>   It would make more
>>> sense to move the handling of SIGWINCH into the signal handler so that
>>> the above works transparently.  I'll look into doing that.
>>
>> That would be a nice addition.
>
>So I don't need to add anything to /etc/profile?

Adding the kill -WINCH still makes sense.  It will at least get things
working for xterm and rxvt.

cgf



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