Screen clearing in CMD without "Legacy Console Mode"

[Jack Adrian Zappa]

On Fri, Apr 30, 2021 at 1:31 PM Takashi Yano via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com>
wrote:

> Why on earth do you want to set TERM=cygwin?
> If you don't set TERM=cygwin, TERM is automatically set to
> xterm-256color, in which the issue does not occur.
>

Might be because for the longest time, if you didn't set it to cygwin, it
would mess up the line editing in the shell if your line would exceed a
certain length (I think 80 chars)