Bad interaction -- alternate console buffer and console history

Bad interaction -- alternate console buffer and console history

[Ben Wing]

I apologize if this is a FAQ.

One of the clever features of the `cygwin' TERM type is that programs like
`man' and `more' and others switch to a secondary screen buffer, so that
when you exit the program, you get back the original buffer, uncluttered by
the program's output.

Unfortunately, this interacts extremely badly with the console history --
all console history is erased as soon as the secondary screen is invoked.

Any plans to fix this?

This is under W2k if it matters.



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Re: Bad interaction -- alternate console buffer and console history

[Larry Hall]

At 10:16 PM 12/9/2004, you wrote:
>I apologize if this is a FAQ.
>
>One of the clever features of the `cygwin' TERM type is that programs like
>`man' and `more' and others switch to a secondary screen buffer, so that
>when you exit the program, you get back the original buffer, uncluttered by
>the program's output.
>
>Unfortunately, this interacts extremely badly with the console history --
>all console history is erased as soon as the secondary screen is invoked.
>
>Any plans to fix this?
>
>This is under W2k if it matters.


Based on the information you've provided so far:

# history
  104  ls
  105  cat ~/.bashrc
  106  q
  107  hisory
  108  history
# man ls
# history
  106  q
  107  hisory
  108  history
  109  man ls
  110  history

If this isn't what you see, perhaps you want to check out
<<http://cygwin.com/problems.html>http://cygwin.com/problems.html>.


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