On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 2:02 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> I wrote:
>> Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com> writes:
>>> The following patch deals with a long standing gripe of mine that the
>>> terminal frequently gets garbled so that when typing.
>
>> Hm. I wonder whether rl_resize_terminal() exists in every iteration
>> of libreadline and libedit.
>
> Quick followup: rl_resize_terminal() exists in GNU readline at least as
> far back as 4.0 (released Feb 1999). However, it doesn't seem to be there
> at all in libedit; I don't see it in OS X Yosemite's headers, anyway.
> So we'd need a configure test for this.
All right, I guess this answers the question I was thinking, 'can this
be backpatched?' (basically, now). I'll work up a configure test and
submit it to the appropriate commit fest.
merlin