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From:	Charles Wilson <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>
Subject:	Re: vim quits and cygwin window contents not restored
Date:	Thu, 03 Apr 2003 15:30:08 -0500
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Randall R Schulz wrote:

> Can I trouble you to explain why your termcap replaces something so 
> different in the existing /etc/termcap file:
> 
> cygwin:\
>     :xn@:op=\E[39;49m:Km=\E[M:te=\E[2J\E[?47l\E8:ti=\E7\E[?47h:tc=linux:
> 
> I understand that this entry incrementally modifies the "linux" entry. 
> Your new one does not? You just decided to sever the connection? There's 
> too much difference to handle this way? It was a bad idea for some reason?

No, it's just that the existing termcap is very very different in 
structure from the existing terminfo entry for cygwin.  Now, if you work 
thru all of the dependencies, you might end up with the same thing; I dunno.

But, the terminfo entry is a straight "specify everything, no backrefs 
to other terminals".  So, if you tic -C it, you get a "specify 
everything, no backrefs" termcap entry.  As to WHY the existing termcap 
entry references linux but the terminfo one does not, your guess is as 
good as mine.  Historical, perhaps?

IMO, "specify everything" is the right way to go here.  cygwin is not 
linux.  cygwin is not xterm.  cygwin is cygwin, with all of its own very 
special quirks...

--Chuck



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