PuTTY bug resize

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summary: Resizing the window is still pretty flaky.
class: bug: This is clearly an actual problem we want fixed.
difficulty: tricky: Needs many tuits.
blocks: startup-fullscreen
priority: historic: This is an old bug report that we think is either fixed without noticing, or confined to old systems, or too vague.

Resizing the window is still pretty flaky. One particular current problem is: if you choose a font that fits 80 columns on your screen but not 132, then sending ESC[?3h to switch to 132-column mode will squish the font just enough to fit 132 columns in a full-width window. So far so good; but when you send ESC[?3l to return to 80 columns, really it would be nice if the window was put back the way it started out. Also there's some indication that the squishing doesn't work quite right; first PuTTY expands the window to full width, then it chooses a font size, and then it leaves a big border down each side of the window when that font size fails to fit quite right. Really it should recompute the window size once it knows the font size.

SGT, 2024-11-17: classifying this bug as historic. It was last updated in 2002 and mentions "one current problem", so it's thoroughly out of date. The window resizing code has had multiple major rewrites since then, but this bug is so vague we can't really tell if it still applies anyway.

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(last revision of this bug record was at 2024-11-17 14:53:03 +0000)