Re: Screen crippled by applications using alternative screen

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

On Sat, May 03, 2014 at 07:52:22PM +0000, Dawid Ferenczy wrote:
>Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please <at> cygwin.com> writes:
>
>> I duplicated this.  The command window that I use doesn't exhibit this
>> behavior.  I thought I'd tested pure cmd when making the recent spate of
>> console handling changes but this one must have slipped by.
>> 
>> It's a shame that, when I repeatedly asked for testing, no one bothered
>> to do so.
>> 
>> Anyway, this should be fixed in the latest snapshot:
>> 
>> http://cygwin.com/snapshots/
>> 
>> cgf
>
>
>Hi Christopher,
>
>after more extensive using, I have to notice that it's still quite a lot 
>buggy.

You seem to enjoy the use of overly vivid language.

>Sometimes there are parts of alternative screen in the scrollback
>buffer, sometimes for example vim hangs while starting or completely
>crashes.

That is not necessarily related to screen handling.  There are a lot of
changes in the snapshot.

>You can see, that sometimes there are 2 blank lines between the prompts, 
>sometimes only 1 on this screenshot: http://ferenczy.cz/tmp/cygwin/4.png

I would appreciate it if, in the future, you would eschew the screen
shots and just describe the problem with words.

cgf

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