Re: BASH trivia

[mike808@users.sourceforge.net]

If you use PuTTY from Windows machines to telnet/ssh into systems, if you want
the shell to be aware of when you've "zoomed" a window or maximized it (in
Win2K, just double-click on the title-bar -- it doesn't "shade" like KDE/GNOME
do), set this option:

shopt -s checkwinsize

If you're in the middle of a vim session, vim will re-paint the screen with
line-wrapping reflecting the new size.

It will even re-wrap the scrollback history to be adjusted to the new size!

Very useful when doing long listings 'ls -al' and the filenames start wrapping
on you.

Also very handy when you've got several sessions visible on your desktop at the
same time. Double-click on the title-bar of the session of interest, and you've
got all the terminal real estate you can use. Another double-click restores it
to the original size (usually 80x25, unless you've adjusted it).

BTW, these are up on the kwiki at http://www.archlug.org/kwiki/CommandLineKwikis

Mike/

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