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Re: 3.0.5: eval `resize` messes up



On May 18, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> } Setting LINES and COLUMNS is precisely why I use "eval `resize`".  It
> } seems to work on every other shell except Zsh.  In fact it worked on
> } Zsh 3.0.2.
> 
> Run "resize" without the "eval" wrapper and see what it spits out.  It
> may be emitting some syntax that zsh doesn't like.  (And if you still
> have 3.0.2 around, run it there too and see it it differs at all.)

Resize spits out the usual:

COLUMNS=77;
LINES=30;
export COLUMNS LINES;

This doesn't change with shell versions.

There are no syntax errors on 3.0.5.  It just plain doesn't respond to the
command.  3.0.2 seems to work fine.

-Clint



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