microsoft / microsoft/terminal

Make BeginResize a RAII thing

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Description

Uh, maybe this method should just return an RAII object that stops the resize when it is destroyed like what we envision good locks to do.

Originally posted by @miniksa in https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/pull/2149

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Research direction

Start by reading the BeginResize implementation and the discussion in pull request 2149, which is referenced in the issue. Determine how resize stopping currently works and define the RAII lifetime behavior; done means the returned object reliably stops resizing when it is destroyed.

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Assessment

Tech stack
cpp
Domain
cli, operating-systems
Issue type
Refactor
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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