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Date:      Sun, 12 Jan 1997 14:57:17 -0500 (EST)
From:      Charles Henrich <henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu>
To:        j@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: A cool xterm?
Message-ID:  <199701121957.OAA14404@crh.cl.msu.edu>
References:  <5bah74$l6u@msunews.cl.msu.edu>

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In lists.freebsd.hackers you write:

>As Joachim Isaksson wrote:

>> xterm*VT100.Translations:    #override \
>>         <Key>Print:     string("eval `/usr/X11R6/bin/resize`") string(0x0d) \
n\
>>         Shift<Key>Up:   scroll-back(1,line) \n\
>>         Shift<Key>Down: scroll-forw(1,line) \n\
>>         <Key>Prior:     scroll-back(1,page) \n\
>>         <Key>Next:      scroll-forw(1,page) \n\
>>         <Key>Home:      scroll-back(1000,page) \n\
>>         <Key>End:       scroll-forw(1000,page)
>>
>> Page up/down for screen up/down, shift arrow up/down for line up/down,
>> Home/End for start/end of scrollback and PrtSc to get resize evaluated.

>What's that resize crap^H^H^H^Hstuff good for?  I never found a good
>excuse to have it.  Does the terminal window size structure not work
>for you?

It is awesome, it queries the END display to get its size, so no matter what
convoulted messed up, ass backwards route you took to get to the other end, you
can actually count on the correct screen size.

-Crh
-- 

       Charles Henrich     Michigan State University     henrich@msu.edu

                         http://pilot.msu.edu/~henrich



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