From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 28782 invoked by alias); 2 May 2014 05:33:36 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 28768 invoked by uid 89); 2 May 2014 05:33:35 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-5.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_SEMBACKSCATTER autolearn=no version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mho-02-ewr.mailhop.org Received: from mho-02-ewr.mailhop.org (HELO mho-02-ewr.mailhop.org) (204.13.248.72) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-SHA encrypted) ESMTPS; Fri, 02 May 2014 05:33:34 +0000 Received: from pool-98-110-183-166.bstnma.fios.verizon.net ([98.110.183.166] helo=cgf.cx) by mho-02-ewr.mailhop.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Wg66G-000Dzy-3f for cygwin@cygwin.com; Fri, 02 May 2014 05:33:32 +0000 Received: from ednor (ednor.casa.cgf.cx [192.168.187.5]) by cgf.cx (Postfix) with SMTP id 5260E600D0 for ; Fri, 2 May 2014 01:33:30 -0400 (EDT) Received: by ednor (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Fri, 02 May 2014 01:33:30 -0400 X-Mail-Handler: Dyn Standard SMTP by Dyn X-Report-Abuse-To: abuse@dyndns.com (see http://www.dyndns.com/services/sendlabs/outbound_abuse.html for abuse reporting information) X-MHO-User: U2FsdGVkX1+8GLjFViFhwtqKQSuF2jHC Date: Fri, 02 May 2014 05:33:00 -0000 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Screen crippled by applications using alternative screen Message-ID: <20140502053330.GA3882@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20140425173617.GB346@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <5362C651.9090402@cygwin.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5362C651.9090402@cygwin.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-SW-Source: 2014-05/txt/msg00028.txt.bz2 On Thu, May 01, 2014 at 06:10:25PM -0400, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: >On 05/01/2014 06:13 AM, Maximus5 wrote: >> Christopher Faylor cygwin.com> writes: >> >>> I don't see the behavior that you are specifying but I doubt that what >>> you are seeing has anything to do with the gobbledegook on the above >>> page. If you do want "Cygwin" to send ANSI escape sequences then you'll >>> need to make sure that you're using a package which knows how to send >>> them, i.e., an ncurses-using package, and that the TERM environment >>> variable is set appropriately. >> >> Hi, about gobbledegook >> >> Looking into imports of cygwin's shot.exe I can see "cygncursesw-10.dll". >> >> Does that mean it is "using a package which knows how to send them"? >> >> Checking for environment >> $ set | grep TERM >> TERM=xterm >> >> Ok? >> >> But sh.exe is using Windows console API instead of writing ANSI to stdout. >> >> What is wrong? > >If you're using the Windows console (cmd.exe, Console2, ConEmu, etc.), then >you're not going to get complete ANSI code support regardless of what you >set your TERM environment variable to. If you're saying that you're using >mintty or xterm and having problems, then you need to provide a clear recipe >to reproduce the problem so that someone here can try to reproduce it. For >more details on what's needed, please see the problem reporting guidelines >found at the link below: > > I think I understand now. The request if for Cygwin to "do nothing" when it sees escape sequences since, apparently, ConEmu will handle escape sequences on its own. This is not a bug in Cygwin but, a request for different functionality. And, on rereading, the web page, I see that I just wasn't getting what was being requested. That was because I was thinking about this from the point of view of someone reporting this as an apparent long-standing bug in Cygwin when it was nothing of the sort. Anyway, gobbledegook label withdrawn. Sorry. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple