Re: gnome-terminal vs. vi

[Miguel de Icaza <miguel nuclecu unam mx>]

> At the very least, they should be exported with correct values --- but
> $LINES and $COLUMNS exist only because early System V didn't have
> TIOC[GS]WINSZ, they were a cheap substitute.  They have very little use
> on modern systems and shopuld probably be dropped except on those older
> systems (OTOH I would not expect GNOME to build on SVR2).

So, I went to remove this on the gnome-terminal code, and found
something very interesting.

Gnome-terminal was actually nuking any preset values for COLUMNS and
LINES.  I see my bash script is setting those up, I do not know from
where.

But it seems to me like this is a problem in the Solaris setup people
are using, not with Gnome-Terminal.

Best wishes,
Miguel.