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Re:The history of Unix's ioctl and signal about window sizes by rockorager on Monday November 04, 2024 @01:27PM (#42044549)
The single downside being you can get signals for SIGWINCH, while the (legacy) xterm escape sequence requires polling.

I wrote a proposal[0] to have terminals send these updates in-band, instead of requiring polling a-la xterm. So far, foot, ghostty, iterm2, and kitty have implemented this feature on the terminal side. Neovim, notably, also supports this on the client side.

[0]: https://gist.github.com/rockorager/e695fb2924d36b2bcf1fff4a3...

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Re:The history of Unix's ioctl and signal about window sizes by clausecker on Monday November 04, 2024 @03:23PM (#42045650)
This stuff sucks because if the application forgets to turn it back off, the terminal pukes random control characters into your shell every time the window is resized.
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Re:The history of Unix's ioctl and signal about window sizes by mrlonglong on Monday November 04, 2024 @03:43PM (#42045801)
That's what `reset` is so useful for.
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