rxvt window size change not detected

[Thomas Dickey]

On Thu, 13 Mar 2008, xerces8 wrote:

> Hi!
>
> Found this problem:
>
> - start bash in rxvt (C:\cygwin\bin\rxvt.exe -sl 5000 -fn 20 -bg black -fg white -sr -e bash --login
> -i)
> - less /etc/passwd
> - maximize the rxvt window
> - quit less (key "q")
> - type a long command line in bash
>
> expected behavior :
> - works fine
>
> actual behavior :
> - the line is wrapped at the width of the windows as it was before maximized and continues in the
> same line at first column (a mess, basically)
>
> versions:
> up to date as of today (13-mar-2008)
>
> bash                 3.2.33-18

I've seen several comments that indicate the problem is a bash setting

> cygwin               1.5.25-11
> less                 382-1
> libncurses8          5.5-3
> libreadline6         5.2.12-10
> rxvt                 20050409-7
> termcap              20050421-1
> terminfo             5.5_20061104-1
>
> complete listing at http://pastebin.ca/940853
>
>
> Regards,
> David
>
> PS: the mirror http://public.planetmirror.com has some error in setup.ini file. The error dialog is :
>
> ---------------------------
> Parse Errors
> ---------------------------
> http://public.planetmirror.com/pub/sourceware/cygwin/setup.ini line 3: syntax error, unexpected LT,
> expecting $end
> ---------------------------
> OK
> ---------------------------
>
>
>
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