randy@NCIFCRF.GOV (04/26/88)
Has anyone either hacked psview or written their own NeWS emulator
which changes the number of rows and columns when you resize instead
of changing the size of the individual characters? (Ie. how
suntools does it). I understand that it was 1) simple, and 2)
conceptually cleaner to resize *everything* under the current
psview, but it is a pain when you want to *use* the fact that you
have a big screen.
If this is an option in NeWS 1.1 my apologizes; we only have 1.0
and are waiting for Sun to ship us 1.1.
-- Randy
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Frederick, MD 21701 Arpa: randy@ncifcrf.govearle@MAHENDO.JPL.NASA.GOV (Greg Earle) (04/27/88)
Randy,
I believe you meant `psterm' and not `psview'. In NeWS 1.1, there is
a prototype terminal emulator called `nterm' which is what you want. It is
a mutation of the X Window System terminal emulator `xterm', with some added
goodies like scrollbars, and the ability to change the text color, window
background color, font size, and cursor caret color at will. It emulates a
VT102, and the window's rows & columns dimensions change when you change the
window size. The only particular nit I have to pick with it is that it also
has *horizontal* scrollbars, so nothing gets folded at 80 characters. Whether
one likes this behavior or not is a religious issue, I suspect.
Greg Earle earle@mahendo.JPL.NASA.GOV [ name
Sun Microsystems earle@valley.West.Sun.COM servers ]
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...!{cit-vax,ames}!elroy!jplgodo!mahendo!earlegregm@SUN.COM (Greg McLaughlin) (04/27/88)
The only particular nit I have to pick with it is that it also has *horizontal* scrollbars, so nothing gets folded at 80 characters. Whether one likes this behavior or not is a religious issue, I suspect. try nterm -aw (aw == auto-wrap). Greg McLaughlin Sun Microsystems Inc.