Console issue

[Michael Schaap]

On 8-8-2002 15:56, Stephen C. Biggs wrote:
> Is this a known issue?
> 
> I have my cygwin shortcut properties modified in the layout to allow for 
> 9999 screen buffer lines.
> I fire up a console, and hit enter a whole bunch of times so that the 
> scroll bar moves a bit down.
> 
> Then I go into vi on a big text file and while in vi, tap above the 
> scroll thumb a few times to page up in the console.  Then I do :q and 
> when I start hitting enter again, the contents of what was in vi is still 
> present in the screen buffer.  This means that I have to hit enter a lot 
> of times to get past it.

Make sure your TERM environment variable is set appropriately.

$ export TERM=cygwin

should take care of it.

  - Michael


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