New terminal capability in fhandler_console.cc

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 05:02:01PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 07:22:44PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 10:47:28AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >> On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 01:15:41PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >> >Hi,
> >> >
> >> >I've just checked in a patch to fhandler_console.cc which adds a
> >> >terminal capability to the windows console.
> >> >
> >> >ESC [ ? 47 h	==   Save screen content
> >> >ESC [ ? 47 l    ==   Restore screen content
> >> >
> >> >This allows adding the termcap capabilities `ti' and `te' to the
> >> >"cygwin" terminal entry in the same way as they are defined for
> >> >xterm:
> >> >
> >> >	:te=\E[2J\E[?47l\E8:ti=\E7\E[?47h:
> >> >
> >> >That enables vim to restore the old screen content after quitting
> >> >the same way in a console window as it does in a xterm window.
> >> 
> >> Nice.  I'm constantly surprised when vim doesn't act this way.
> >> 
> >> How about implementing "insert a character" for your next trick?
> >
> >I was near to implement that using the ScrollConsoleScreenBuffer
> >capability but then I saw that it's more work than I have time
> >to invest currently. Dumb scrolling to the right, ok, but wrapping
> >to the next line?!? Needs at least a day. Perhaps this weekend...
> 
> I don't think it works that way, does it?  I just tried this.  There
> is no wrapping.  Characters at the end of the line are truncated.

Did you try that under linux? Hmm, I'm perhaps misleaded by the
behaviour of the shell.

> I think this means that insert char and delete char are pretty easy
> to do.

Yeah, you might be right. I will implement the `im' and `ei' sequences
the easy way and we will see what happens. 

Corinna

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