Subject: Re: bug#37564: [PATCH] don't export LINES and COLUMNS env vars in term to fix ncurses applications

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2020 17:46:47 +0200

> From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
> Cc: Stefan Kangas <[email-masked]>,  [email-masked],  [email-masked]
> Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2020 22:38:10 -0500
> 
> 
> PS for an example of the effect, one can use some of the programs in
> the ncurses-examples from
> https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses-examples.html
> 
> eg "worm".

I understand that applications based on ncurses are affected, but what
about those which aren't based on ncurses?