Re: [vile] compiling on OSX with proper resizing

[Gary Jennejohn]

On Wed, 07 Jan 2009 14:14:04 -0500
Daniel Ashbrook <address@hidden> wrote:

> I'm trying to compile the latest vile on OSX. The vile that one can get
> from Fink (http://pdb.finkproject.org/pdb/package.php/vile) is pretty
> out of date (9.4), but has the very nice property that when you resize
> the Terminal window, vile realizes and resizes its content.
> Unfortunately, I can't get that to happen when I compile it myself.
> 
> The configure flags for the Fink package's version, according to the
> above page, are:
> 
>   --mandir=%p/share/man --with-locale  --with-ncurses
> 
> The only thing that I assume would make the difference is
> --with-ncurses, so I tried that, but no dice (it doesn't work without
> that flag, either). It's possible my ncurses is too old; I'm using the
> stock version that comes with OSX, which is 5.5.20051010.
> 
> Any advice?
> 

Resizing the screen should be caused by SIGWINCH.  Does OSX have that signal?

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Gary Jennejohn