Re: redisplay command

Hi, Bernhard.

Thanks for the response. These things are never too late.

Since my original mail, I've been paying quite close attention. Indeed,
there are a couple dialogs I've seen where this happens to me. I wonder if
the goal shouldn't be to fix ratpoison to do this maximize at the end of
all window operations before the XSync. I suspect, without having measured
yet, that the cost would be negligible as long as it doesn't incur an
additional server round-trip.


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On 24 October 2014 09:36, Bernhard R. Link <[email protected]> wrote:

> * Jeff Abrahamson <[email protected]> [140907 21:09]:
> > I am curious if anyone sees a use for the redisplay command in ratpoison.
> > This command feels like it was copied from screen (where line noise makes
> > it useful sometimes) and perhaps survives from those early X days when
> > asking the server to redraw the screen was sometimes useful in the face
> of
> > programs writing to /dev/console and messing with the display.
> >
> > I'm not proposing to remove the function, but I wonder if it needs to
> stay
> > in the default key binding map, which seems noisy to me.
>
> I think it is one of the functions I use the most. Most of the time
> perhaps unnecessarily, but it is something I almost press without
> thinking whenever something in the display of a window is not quite
> correct.
>
> It's especially useful with dialogs that ended up in a wrong frame.
> Selecting them in a bigger frame does usually not resize them, so
> they miss things like the one input field they contain, which a quick
> redisplay fixes.
>
> And then there is still that xterm bug causing xterm to not use the
> better size mechanics of Linux I think, which causes it often to end up
> with the wrong information about the window size within the shell it
> spawned, which a quick redisplay fixes.
>
> Sorry for the late answer, I've queued up some mails currently,
>         Bernhard R. Link
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