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Subject:	Re: pressing ENTER scrambles scrolled MS-DOS-console
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On Tue, Oct 04, 2011 at 06:18:33PM -0700, jan.kolar wrote:
>
>
>Corinna Vinschen-2 wrote:
>> 
>> On Sep 26 14:18, Paul Maier wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> scrolling up the console output to review the console history, then
>>> pressing
>>> Enter scrambles the console.
>> 
>> That's a long standing behaviour of the Cygwin console emulation.
>> I guess it can be fixed, but somebody will have to do it.  In the
>> meantime, try mintty as terminal.
>> 
>> 
>> Corinna
>> 
>> -- 
>> Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
>> Cygwin Project Co-Leader          cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
>> Red Hat
>> 
>> 
>
>The problem is as below.
>However it needs some thinking, checking and testing, since I have no idea
>what that line was needed for.
>
>diff --git i/fhandler_console.cc w/fhandler_console.cc
>index 74b5cbd..f29426d 100644
>--- i/fhandler_console.cc
>+++ w/fhandler_console.cc
>@@ -1089,7 +1127,27 @@ fhandler_console::cursor_set (bool rel_to_top, int x,
>int y)
>
>   dev_state->fillin_info (get_output_handle ());
>   if (y > dev_state->info.winBottom)
>-    y = dev_state->info.winBottom;
>+    y = y;

Yeah.  Yeah.  Nice.

cgf

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