Some programs (vi, ssh) crash when screen buffer height is big

Warren Young wyml@etr-usa.com
Fri Aug 21 18:53:00 GMT 2015


On Aug 21, 2015, at 6:37 AM, Sous Lesquels <a9f54d2@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> It happened on the first run, with a 317x85 window and 9999 lines of scrollback buffer.
> 
> OK, at least it's reproducible by one more person :)

A replicable bug is a dead bug.  All that’s needed is for someone to spend the time to chase it down.

My interest stopped with replicating the bug.  I have no skin in the game beyond that.  I don’t use anything but mintty these days, except when forced, and don’t use Cygwin or Windows enough to miss tabs when I can’t use an OS where the native terminal emulator has them.

> For various usability reasons (tabs being the biggest I think), I'm
> using ConEmu

Perhaps SuperPutty would work for you:

  https://github.com/jimradford/superputty

It claims to run putty as a subprocess, providing tabs and scp support on top of it.  Since mintty is a fork of putty, it might be a drop-in replacement, or an easy hack if not.

It appears to be written in C#, so I doubt it would be allowed to incorporate this code into mintty itself, though.


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