[Konsole-devel] [konsole] [Bug 196998] Konsole should reflow the text when resizing

[Egmont Koblinger]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=196998

--- Comment #21 from Egmont Koblinger <egmont at gmail.com> ---
You can't flow the text backwards; but indeed you can walk backwards to find
the beginning of a paragraph (an explicit newine) and flow forward from that
point. It might become slow with overlong paragraphs though.

Yup maybe g-t's design is a bit overengineered and maybe a simpler one could
also work. You inspired me to at least file a ticket that lets us remember:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=741520

When implementing such a nontrivial feature, other interesting factors come to
the game, e.g. the existing design of the terminal, and my close-to-zero
knowledge about vte's code then. So I went for the approach that needed
probably the smallest amount of changes to the existing bits. Maybe I'd do it
differently if I started it today with 1 year of experience with the code,
maybe I'd be braver to do bigger changes and go for this approach.

So I'm not saying gnome-terminal's way is the best or the only way to solve
this problem. :)

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