gnome-terminal question

[Vitorio Okio]

this is exactly what i needed.  thank you very much. i'll read man 
pages certainly.

"Ulf Rompe" <Ulf.Rompe at icem.com> wrote in message 
news:1202377522.10339.72.camel at ilsor.hnv.icem.de...
> Am Mittwoch, den 06.02.2008, 22:16 +0000 schrieb Vitorio Okio:
>> It stopped forced wrapping on a predefined column, but only if I
>> either enlarge the terminal window before executing a command or I
>> enlarge the window during the command execution.  That is, it
>> refreshes the window and wraps the output according to the new 
>> window
>> size only when output is in process. If the command is completed 
>> the
>> output remains wrapped for the initial window size.
>
> That's the way it has to be. The wrapping is done by the shell. The
> terminal just tells the size to the shell. You can force the shell 
> to
> ask for the current window size after every command by putting this 
> into
> your ~/.bashrc :
>
>  shopt -s checkwinsize
>
> See "man bash" for an explanation.
>
> [x] ulf
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