X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SARE_MSGID_LONG40,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <416096c60903011234y3434e47wcfc86421e35b5dcb@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2009 16:35:31 -0500 Message-ID: <17393e3e0903011335s7b7ce1d7lb94ddce87e9a653d@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: console scroll speed on Win XP From: Matt Wozniski To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: 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 On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 3:54 PM, Mike Marchywka wrote: >> >>> Is there some option to turn off to make this reasonable or has anyone >>> else seen this problem? I set display options to maximize performance >>> and there don't seem to be any options available for the cygwin window >>> that would help. >> >> Yep, the Windows console is slow alright, and I don't know of any way >> to speed it up. What I can recommend are the alternative terminal >> emulators available in Cygwin: xterm, rxvt, and the recently added >> mintty (by yours truly), all of which scroll a lot faster than the >> console. >> >> (Please note that all three share one drawback though: native Windows >> console programs might not work correctly in them, particularly >> input.) > > What is wrong with the native apps ? I use them in some scripts > but usually not interactively. I don't normally care about text > formatting if output is just a bit different. IO buffering won't work the way they expect when they don't have a real console. So, you wind up with weird conditions like the program waiting for input after printing out a prompt - but the app didn't call fflush(), so the prompt hasn't actually been displayed, but it's still waiting for you to answer the question. Using them in a scripted way should work fine, it's just interactive usage that you would expect to be broken. ~Matt -- 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/