Console buffer width always 1 column less than setting

Steven Penny svnpenn@gmail.com
Mon Jan 1 06:50:00 GMT 2018


On Sun, 23 Apr 2017 15:09:10, Steven Penny wrote:
> I found a fix to this problem. Create a file "cygwin-xenl.terminfo":
> 
>     cygwin-xenl|cygwin eat_newline_glitch,
>       xenl,
>       use=cygwin,
> 
> Compile and install the file:
> 
>     tic cygwin-xenl.terminfo
> 
> Add line to "~/.profile" or similar:
> 
>     TERM=cygwin-xenl

http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2017-04/msg00297.html

to any who might have used this solution - i discovered a bad side effect

when searching man pages, if you use the "/" operator - the first matching line
is removed, and you are brought to the following line - then if you try to
scroll up - the previous lines are there but not the matching line

subsequent matching lines are shown as expected - this is for my custom terminal
above and any terminal using "xenl" - not sure what a workaround for this is
other than dont use "xenl" and deal with the missing column per the original
issue.


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