Clearing the buffer after quitting LESS, MAN, VIM etc.

[Andrey Repin]

Greetings, Christopher Faylor!

> There is still one more difference between Cygwin and, e.g., xterm
> though.  The scroll buffer is still there when you enter a full screen
> session like vim or less.  So you can scroll up to it and really cause
> confusion.  It's possible to fix that behavior but it would be really
> tricky.  I'm not sure I want to complicate the console handling code
> for this one corner case.

I don't have any expertise in trickyness of this task, but I know application,
that does exactly this.
Far manager shrink console output buffer to console window size by default,
when starting up.
The file you're looking for is
http://farmanager.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/unicode_far/console.cpp


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WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@yandex.ru) 16.02.2014, <23:50>

Sorry for my terrible english...


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