On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 07:08:01PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 12:46:37AM +0400, Andrey Repin wrote: >>Greetings, Christopher Faylor! >>> There is still one more difference between Cygwin and, e.g., xterm >>> though. The scroll buffer is still there when you enter a full screen >>> session like vim or less. So you can scroll up to it and really cause >>> confusion. It's possible to fix that behavior but it would be really >>> tricky. I'm not sure I want to complicate the console handling code >>> for this one corner case. >> >>I don't have any expertise in trickyness of this task, but I know application, >>that does exactly this. >>Far manager shrink console output buffer to console window size by default, >>when starting up. >>The file you're looking for is >>http://farmanager.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/unicode_far/console.cpp > >I wasn't implying that I don't know how to do it. It is tricky to get >right for Cygwin.
So, I did go ahead and implement this in Cygwin by switching console buffers. It works great in a cmd window but not at all in a TCMD <http://jpsoft.com/> window. I have used jpsoftware products for longer than I've been working on Cygwin so that's personally a bad bug for me. I'm trying to file a bug report but I wonder if this will cause a problem for other console programs if it doesn't work for a popular commercial product. -- 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