From: Takashi Yano <takashi.yano@nifty.ne.jp>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Interaction with non-cygwin programs
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2020 17:58:37 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201026175837.da083ec16f85a6ca3f62e4a9@nifty.ne.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ddbe45c9-6e4c-3f73-ee37-72e01846c2b0@gmail.com>
On Mon, 26 Oct 2020 07:05:30 +0100
Federico Kircheis wrote:
> On 25/10/2020 11.12, Takashi Yano wrote:
> > On Sat, 24 Oct 2020 17:04:59 +0200
> > Federico Kircheis via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:
> >> I've lately updated Windows to the latest version, and cygwin too (I had
> >> something previous to 3.0).
> >>
> >> I've read that interaction with non-cygwin programs should be better
> >> because of the console-helper.
> >>
> >>
> >> But in my daily usage the integration is worse, programs like tmux or
> >> even less seems to have more issues than before.
> >>
> >>
> >> For example
> >>
> >> /cygdrive/c/Program\ Files/TortoiseSVN/bin/svn log | less
> >>
> >> used to work correctly.
> >> Currently if I press arrow down or up less does not scroll up or down
> >> anymore and "ESC[" appears briefly at the top-left of the console.
> >>
> >> Of course i could install subversion inside cygwin, as
> >>
> >> svn log | less
> >>
> >> works without issues, but it's just an example.
> >> git, adb, and other programs trigger the same behavior.
> >>
> >>
> >> Also less is not the only program, tmux for example has similar issues.
> >>
> >> I believe the underlying issue is console-helper but I'm not sure how I
> >> could test it, as I did, for example, not find how I could disable it,
> >> or if the issue is already known.
> >>
> >> I'm able to reproduce the issue on a clean machine, so it should not be
> >> a configuration issue on my side.
> >
> > Could you please try cygwin latest snapshot?
> > https://cygwin.com/snapshots/
> >
>
> Thank you, tried and it seems to work.
>
> I could notice only one minor issue: when making changing the terminal
> size with "Wind+arrow"with
>
> /cygdrive/c/Program\ Files/TortoiseSVN/bin/svn log | less
>
> less does not seem to acknowledge the new terminal size, while
>
> svn log | less
>
> does.
> If using the mouse and resizing the terminal by hand, both commands seem
> to behave the same.
Thanks for the report. However, I cannot reproduce that.
1) What windows version are you using? (such as Win10 1909)
2) What less version are you using? (which less, and cygcheck -c less)
--
Takashi Yano <takashi.yano@nifty.ne.jp>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-26 8:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-24 15:04 Federico Kircheis
2020-10-24 18:10 ` Brian Inglis
2020-10-24 19:11 ` Federico Kircheis
2020-10-24 19:35 ` Brian Inglis
2020-10-24 20:23 ` Federico Kircheis
2020-10-25 10:12 ` Takashi Yano
2020-10-26 6:05 ` Federico Kircheis
2020-10-26 8:58 ` Takashi Yano [this message]
[not found] ` <7130b665-2bcd-5e15-d8ff-a377dd1534c3@gmail.com>
2020-10-27 8:25 ` Takashi Yano
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20201026175837.da083ec16f85a6ca3f62e4a9@nifty.ne.jp \
--to=takashi.yano@nifty.ne.jp \
--cc=cygwin@cygwin.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).