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Date:      Sun, 12 Jan 1997 13:48:03 +0100 (MET)
From:      Joachim Isaksson <ic@ocean.campus.luth.se>
To:        joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: A cool xterm?
Message-ID:  <199701121248.NAA08392@ocean.campus.luth.se>
In-Reply-To: <Mutt.19970112112714.j@uriah.heep.sax.de> from J Wunsch at "Jan 12, 97 11:27:14 am"

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> 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?

Not when I log onto another computer over 'tip' in a local xterm for some 
reason... :(
(was setting up a somewhat 'odd' network the other day and having contact
over the serial port, not just the network, was VERY helpful.
But, alas, in this case it was more of an example of keyboard mapping.

> (Btw., resize is a strong misnomer.  It, of course, doesn't resize the
> xterm, which would have been a much cooler idea at all. :)

Ack, then we'd had all kinds of windows jumping around resizing themselves.
It would feel just like running Internet Explorer on 32 bit Windows. >:)

								/Joachim



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