[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Actually there is something going on here. I reverted to an earlier version > of Cygwin and even in a non-fullscreen rxvt environment, any of nano, pico > and vim use the entire available depth of the window to display the text > file being edited (so that for instance in pico and nano the Help menu > appears at the bottom of the page and 50+ lines of the file are visible). > > The latest current version of Cygwin now displays only 20 lines of the file > being edited to screen, exactly as in a basic bash window. > > Sorry not to be more specific about when the change occurred, but I think it > is absolutely recent. I use this size of window for these editors the whole > time, and the altered presentation caught my eye immediately. Unfortunately > all of cygwin, login and Goodness knows what have been updated recently and > I am not competent to isolate cause, only consequence! > > (Surely somebody out there uses viim in a rxvt windows and has also noticed > this difference, yesterday or the day before??) >
I have a fully updated installation and I have never had a problem with using vi and rxvt at 67 lines x 80 columns - see below. $ stty -a speed 38400 baud; rows 67; columns 80; line = 0; intr = ^C; quit = ^\; erase = ^H; kill = ^U; eof = ^D; eol = <undef>; eol2 = <undef>; start = ^Q; stop = ^S; susp = ^Z; rprnt = ^R; werase = ^W; lnext = ^V; flush = ^O; min = 1; time = 0; -parenb -parodd cs8 -hupcl -cstopb cread -clocal -crtscts -ignbrk brkint ignpar -parmrk -inpck -istrip -inlcr -igncr icrnl ixon -ixoff -iuclc -ixany imaxbel opost -olcuc -ocrnl onlcr -onocr -onlret -ofill -ofdel nl0 cr0 tab0 bs0 vt0 ff0 isig icanon iexten echo echoe echok -echonl -noflsh -tostop echoctl echoke $ uname -a CYGWIN_NT-4.0 DON 1.3.15(0.63/3/2) 2002-11-07 13:57 i686 unknown Seems you might have a flaky installation. Cheers Don Sharp -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/