[PATCH] churn: obtain current terminal width if possible

Giorgos Keramidas keramida at ceid.upatras.gr
Thu Jul 19 11:31:04 CDT 2007


On 2007-07-19 13:21, "Alexis S. L. Carvalho" <alexis at cecm.usp.br> wrote:
> Hmm... true, but here (debian), if I "export COLUMNS", it becomes
> visible to child processes, and it's even updated when the term size
> changes.  Both with bash and zsh.  So I guess it can be useful...

AFAICT, it doesn't work this way on FreeBSD or Solaris, but if it
helps in at least one system it can't hurt I guess :)



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