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Re: vim quits and cygwin window contents not restored


Larry,

At 07:18 2003-03-25, lhall at pop dot ma dot ultranet dot com wrote:
Hi Randall,

Oh it's a problem alright.  I'm just not sure the exact source and
whether this functionality is in conflict with something else that 5.3-1
was trying to fix.  I looked at the email archives for discussions
surrounding terminfo and couldn't find anything current, except for
Chuck's announcement and credit given to Thomas Dickey for some Cygwin
terminal changes.  Hm, guess I should've checked cygwin-apps too.  OK,
that's on my list.

Your interpretation of "updating" and "reverting" below is correct.  It
works for me with terminfo 5.2-3 and doesn't work with 5.3-1.  I'm using
vim 6.1.300-1 in a cmd.exe window running bash (2.05b-8).

OK. So I guess we can consider the symptom confirmed.


Igor's right. We need a name for the windows that are created for non-gui, character subsystem. Surely CMD.EXE is not involved in your scenario (which is the one I routinely use, too). I think "console" is OK.

When Jurgen mentioned "top" in his report on the output anomalies in "procps" I checked it for this symptom. It uses ncurses6 and also fails to restore the window contents.


Randall Schulz



Larry

Original Message:
-----------------
From: Randall R Schulz rrschulz at cris dot com
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 20:14:55 -0800
To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
Subject: Re: vim quits and cygwin window contents not restored


Larry,


At 19:38 2003-03-24, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc.) wrote:
>Randall R Schulz wrote:
>>Hi,
>>
>>Some salient facts:
>>
>>...
>>
>>So, my bet is on the terminfo for cygwin as the locus of the problem,
>>whatever it is. Other reasonable hypotheses are that there's problem
>>in ncurses or in how Vim uses it.
>
>
>Yeah, the terminfo change is the "problem".   Updating to 5.3-1 allows
>me to reproduce the behavior.  Reverting to 5.2-3 restores the
>original behavior.

Does the presence of quote marks indicate you don't consider this a problem?

The wording of the "updating ..." and "reverting ..." sentences is
ambiguous to me. Are you saying that you do see the failure to restore
the original window contents when Vim is quit or suspended under
terminfo-5.3-1 and see the proper restore behavior under 5.2-3?


>-- >Larry Hall


Randall Schulz


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