Mail Archives: cygwin/2006/05/16/11:03:18
well I've given up on that, now I'm hacking away at puttycyg to make
it do what I need it to do, like send out the correct high F keys, and
adding an argument to make it full screen on startup. =)
Thanks,
-Jeff
On 5/16/06, Samuel Thibault <samuel DOT thibault AT ens-lyon DOT org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Jeff Lange, le Tue 16 May 2006 09:50:41 -0400, a écrit :
> > I've come across an anomaly with the standard cygwin console regarding
> > cursor advancement.
>
> What you call "standard cygwin console" is the _windows_ console.
>
> > If I have a console 80 chars wide, and echo the following text:
> >
> > ^[[H12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890^Mxxxxxxxx
> >
> > I would expect to see the following output (as I do in Linux or rxvt):
> > xxxxxxxx901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890
>
> That depends on the terminal type. Some do wrap at the right side,
> others don't, see the "am" capability in man 5 terminfo. In addition to
> that, some do wrap as soon as the 80th position is filled, see the "sam"
> capability.
>
> > The cursor is being advanced to the second line when the 80th
> > character is written to the screen, this shouldn't be the default
> > behavior.
>
> That's the way the windows console behaves. Not much can be changed
> here. Just run rxvt ;)
>
> Samuel
>
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