From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 583 invoked by alias); 3 May 2014 20:02:45 -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 570 invoked by uid 89); 3 May 2014 20:02:44 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-6.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mho-01-ewr.mailhop.org Received: from mho-03-ewr.mailhop.org (HELO mho-01-ewr.mailhop.org) (204.13.248.66) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-SHA encrypted) ESMTPS; Sat, 03 May 2014 20:02:43 +0000 Received: from pool-98-110-183-166.bstnma.fios.verizon.net ([98.110.183.166] helo=cgf.cx) by mho-01-ewr.mailhop.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Wgg8v-000ClM-5P for cygwin@cygwin.com; Sat, 03 May 2014 20:02:41 +0000 Received: from ednor (ednor.casa.cgf.cx [192.168.187.5]) by cgf.cx (Postfix) with SMTP id 6E7A0600D0 for ; Sat, 3 May 2014 16:02:38 -0400 (EDT) Received: by ednor (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Sat, 03 May 2014 16:02:38 -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: U2FsdGVkX18EquSfRdV+rr+zhDvRfRFM Date: Sat, 03 May 2014 20:02:00 -0000 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Screen crippled by applications using alternative screen Message-ID: <20140503200238.GA2783@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20140425173617.GB346@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <20140426180618.GA380@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-SW-Source: 2014-05/txt/msg00045.txt.bz2 On Sat, May 03, 2014 at 07:52:22PM +0000, Dawid Ferenczy wrote: >Christopher Faylor 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 -- 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