X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 11:03:01 -0400 From: "Jeff Lange" To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: console question In-Reply-To: <20060516140338.GF4279@implementation.labri.fr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline References: <20060516140338.GF4279@implementation.labri.fr> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id k4GF3EOW013707 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 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 > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/