Re: Screen crippled by applications using alternative screen

["Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <reply-to-list-only-lh@cygwin.com>]

On 05/01/2014 06:13 AM, Maximus5 wrote:
> Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please <at> 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:

<http://cygwin.com/problems.html>

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Larry

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