Mail Archives: cygwin/2001/03/30/10:24:45
I believe this is a terminal 'thing' but I don't know exactly how to change
it.
For more information:
man term
man termcap
etc. there is a terminal 'clear' setting.
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Have you ever wonder what happens when you run "rm -rf / " but been afraid
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: rich coco [mailto:rich DOT coco AT verizon DOT net]
> Sent: Friday, March 30, 2001 1:35 AM
> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject: Problem: is it Vim or cygwin/bash setting?
>
>
> In an older B20 release of cygwin, when i used Vim to edit a file and
> eventually exited, my window reverted to the state it was in prior to
> the vim session (ie, the text being editied by vim is no longer
> visible).
>
> I upgraded to the latest cygwin release (i was missing groff,
> ghostscript, lots more...) and noticed that the above
> behavior - which i
> prefer - does not occur. That is, when I quit my Vim session,
> the text I
> was editing stays on my screen, clobbering the pre-vim context.
>
> i cannot determine if this is a Vim configuration thing or a
> shell-configuration thing.
> What can I modify - if anything - to get the behavior i want?
>
> Tia,
>
> - rich
>
> --
> rich DOT coco AT verizon DOT net
>
>
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