[matt_kantor]

It's possible to handle resizes without all this machinery, most simply by clearing the screen and redrawing everything when a resize occurs. Some TUI libraries will automatically do this for you.

Programs like top, emacs, tmux, etc are most definitely not implemented using this stack, yet they handle resizing just fine.

[mike_hearn]

That doesn't work if you want to preserve scrollback behavior, I think. It only works if you treat the terminal as a grid of characters rather than a width-elastic column into which you pour information from the top.