Re: Need general snapshot testers/console buffer jumble

[Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com>]

On Sun, Mar 09, 2014 at 03:14:32PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 03:26:33PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 07:14:49PM +0100, Thorsten Kampe wrote:
>>>* Christopher Faylor (Thu, 20 Feb 2014 13:11:39 -0500)
>>>> I forgot to mention that I managed to duplicate this problem and am
>>>> working on a fix for this and the other screen garbling seen in
>>>> recent snapshots.
>>>
>>>Reporting a possibly related bug in connection with the latest 
>>>snapshots: connecting to a Byobu session with GNU screen backend via 
>>>ssh has the effect that everything in the last line will not be 
>>>output.
>>
>>Sorry but I have no idea what Byobu is or what it means to be backed by
>>ssh.  ssh normally uses ptys which don't touch any of the code that
>>I have been modifying.
>>
>>Please see my request for information in:
>>
>>http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2014-02/msg00634.html
>>
>>I would REALLY appreciate it if anyone reporting issues would be as
>>absolutely detail rich as possible.
>
>There is a new snapshot available which should fix the problem with
>screen status bar.
>
>There are still issues with the console buffer and full screen apps
>like vim/emacs/less.  If you scroll the buffer while in that mode
>then things will get weird.  The solution so far is:  Don't do that.

This should be fixed now too.

I'd like to release a Cygwin 1.7.29 with just bugfixes soon so I would
appreciate detailed feedback on any regressions.


cgf

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