Subject: Re: Bug in vi or ncurses?
From: "Dylan Cuthbert" <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 15:58:52 +0900

I don't see that behaviour here using rxvt.

Are you using rxvt or the windows command line?

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> I typically have my shell windows set to have several thousand lines of
> scrollback history.  As soon as you run vi, it blanks everything except
> the current lines on view (which are re-drawn when you exit vi, of
> course).
>
> So, you can scroll back, but only to see emptiness - vast tracts of
> white space.  All your session history (especially, command output) is
> completely wiped.  Except for those last 42 or whatever that are still
> on display in the window, at the end.
>
> :-(
>
> luke
>
>
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