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On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 11:05:58PM -0700, Karl M wrote: >My first email had a cygcheck and the following steps to reproduce the >symptoms. > >I just noticed the following with Cygwin 1.7, and ssh (and vi in this >example), on Vista Business SP2. > >If I (1) open a bash cygwin window from the normal installed shortcut >(cmd.exe). > >(2) drag the bottom edge of the window down to enlarge it. > >(3) ssh localhost (or to another host). > >(4) edit a file with vi. > >Then only a portion of the window is used, the size of the original >window before enlarging it. > >If I (5) exit vi, and exit the ssh session. > >(6) ssh localhost (or to another host). > >(7) edit a file with vi. > >Then the entire window is used for editing. As I mentioned in another thread, Cygwin's handling of console window size changes is not perfect. It is hampered by what Windows provides. I don't see any difference between Cygwin 1.5 and Cygwin 1.7 in this regard and I would not have expected any since there were no changes in that part of the code. cgf -- 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
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