Mail Archives: cygwin/2003/03/25/00:19:05
Sorry, I haven't been following this thread. See below.
Randall wrote:
>>> So, my bet is on the terminfo for cygwin as the locus of the problem,
>>> whatever it is. Other reasonable hypotheses are that there's problem
>>> in ncurses or in how Vim uses it.
Larry wrote:
>> Yeah, the terminfo change is the "problem". Updating to 5.3-1 allows
>> me to reproduce the behavior. Reverting to 5.2-3 restores the
>> original behavior.
Randall wrote:
> Does the presence of quote marks indicate you don't consider this a
> problem?
>
> The wording of the "updating ..." and "reverting ..." sentences is
> ambiguous to me. Are you saying that you do see the failure to restore
> the original window contents when Vim is quit or suspended under
> terminfo-5.3-1 and see the proper restore behavior under 5.2-3?
terminfo is a fork from ncurses -- but I try to keep it sync'ed.
Recently, I built ncurses-5.3 for cygwin (it's available as a 'test'
package right now) and while doing so, I resync'ed terminfo to the
ncurses base.
I did this because the ncurses maintainer finally folded in most of
Earnie Boyd's original changes for the "cygwin" terminal. However, he
did not include all of them.
In my foolishness, I figured that if the upstream maintainer had seen
Earnie's patches, but opted to leave out a few codes, that he must have
had a good reason to do so. So I followed his lead. (I never noticed a
problem pre-release, because I do most of my work in an rxvt window; I
did only minimal testing in a "DOSbox" TERM=cygwin shell. Sorry.
[doesn't everybody use rxvt?? <g>] )
I'll try to figure out which parts are missing, and reinstate them --
look for a new release (of terminfo-) sometime in the next week.
--Chuck
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