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Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 08:35:32 +0400
From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon@yandex.ru>
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To: Christopher Faylor <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: Clearing the buffer after quitting LESS, MAN, VIM etc.
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Greetings, Christopher Faylor!

>>>>>So, I did go ahead and implement this in Cygwin by switching console
>>>>>buffers.  It works great in a cmd window but not at all in a TCMD
>>>>><http://jpsoft.com/> window.  I have used jpsoftware products for
>>>>>longer than I've been working on Cygwin so that's personally a bad bug
>>>>>for me.
>>>>
>>
>>>If I can find some way of detecting when I'm in a TCMD environment I
>>>might just fall back to the old code.
>>
>>Don't they have a direct API to answer this kind of questions?

> I sort of asked them that but they haven't replied yet.  Do you know of
> something?  I don't see anything pertinent in their documentation.

Nothing from the top of my head. I've worked with their GUI briefly in the
beginning, then reverted to pure console (4NT back in the days) due to a
number of incompatibilities with existing apps, and never looked back.


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WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@yandex.ru) 24.02.2014, <08:33>

Sorry for my terrible english...


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