Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Message-ID: From: Glen Coakley To: "'rich coco'" , cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: RE: Problem: is it Vim or cygwin/bash setting? Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 09:10:36 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" I believe this is a terminal 'thing' but I don't know exactly how to change it. For more information: man term man termcap etc. there is a terminal 'clear' setting. ________________________________ Glen Coakley, Sr. Software Engineer MQSoftware Inc., (763) 543-4845 Have you ever wonder what happens when you run "rm -rf / " but been afraid to try it? > -----Original Message----- > From: rich coco [mailto:rich.coco@verizon.net] > Sent: Friday, March 30, 2001 1:35 AM > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Problem: is it Vim or cygwin/bash setting? > > > In an older B20 release of cygwin, when i used Vim to edit a file and > eventually exited, my window reverted to the state it was in prior to > the vim session (ie, the text being editied by vim is no longer > visible). > > I upgraded to the latest cygwin release (i was missing groff, > ghostscript, lots more...) and noticed that the above > behavior - which i > prefer - does not occur. That is, when I quit my Vim session, > the text I > was editing stays on my screen, clobbering the pre-vim context. > > i cannot determine if this is a Vim configuration thing or a > shell-configuration thing. > What can I modify - if anything - to get the behavior i want? > > Tia, > > - rich > > -- > rich.coco@verizon.net > > -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple