> > Simplest way to reproduce is this: run 'screen', then run 'vim', then > > exit with ':q'. My bash prompt is now on the bottom line of my mintty > > window, but everything I type, and all output after that, stays on the > > last line, each line overwriting the previous. Using 'clear', or > > switching to another screen window and back with Ctrl-A commands, > > fixes the problem. If I run vim without screen, then it restores the > > previous window contents after vim exits. This always happens with > > empty files; it sometimes happens when editing other files, but it > > doesn't always, and I haven't tried it extensively to try to figure > > out why. > > Looks like vim isn't the only problem here, nor is screen. I was able > to see some other poor behaviour by looking at a man page and then > searching for a string which didn't exist--whether running 'screen' or > not. It displayed "Pattern not found" on the bottom line, which > caused a bunch of lines to be pushed upward by one, leaving much > duplication and confusion. (I would attach a screenshot here, but the > mailer-daemon rejected both png and jpg formats. What does it like, > gif? bmp? tiff?) I believe I'm using 'less' for my pager, and I can > see the same thing using less. Less, vim, man...wasn't there another > issue recently that involved those? Maybe I'll try that snapshot and > see if that helps with this problem at all.
I also saw this problem yesterday. I was using screen, but not vim - it happened in a bash session. I don't know what caused it. After a while I did something to reconfigure the terminal - I can't remember what, but maybe I killed the shell or screen session - and it cleared up again. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple