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From: Jack Adrian Zappa <adrianh.bsc@gmail.com>
To: Takashi Yano <takashi.yano@nifty.ne.jp>
Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com, Kevin Locke <kevin@kevinlocke.name>
Subject: Re: Screen clearing in CMD without "Legacy Console Mode"
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2021 14:00:01 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKepmaiMREFn9spSm4Mn_rnSBtWNRcNVeVJaJfSxNLtsm22R2A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210430235358.2ae6daa41e3f0b6cb0daa173@nifty.ne.jp>

On Fri, Apr 30, 2021 at 1:31 PM Takashi Yano via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com>
wrote:

> Why on earth do you want to set TERM=cygwin?
> If you don't set TERM=cygwin, TERM is automatically set to
> xterm-256color, in which the issue does not occur.
>

Might be because for the longest time, if you didn't set it to cygwin, it
would mess up the line editing in the shell if your line would exceed a
certain length (I think 80 chars)

      parent reply	other threads:[~2021-04-30 18:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-04-30 14:25 Kevin Locke
2021-04-30 14:53 ` Takashi Yano
2021-04-30 15:02   ` Kevin Locke
2021-05-05 13:07     ` Johannes Schindelin
2021-05-06  9:12       ` Takashi Yano
2021-05-06  9:15         ` Takashi Yano
2021-04-30 16:40   ` Brian Inglis
2021-04-30 17:11     ` Takashi Yano
2021-04-30 18:00   ` Jack Adrian Zappa [this message]

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