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Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 21:49:44 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
To: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: tcsh Win2000: command line editing does not work
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In-Reply-To: <s1spuf96bf7.fsf@jaist.ac.jp>; from fujieda@jaist.ac.jp on Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 01:00:44AM +0900

On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 01:00:44AM +0900, Kazuhiro Fujieda wrote:
>>>> On Thu, 15 Mar 2001 23:15:08 +0100
>>>> Corinna Vinschen <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com> said:
>
>> Sure. It's a known problem. It only happens in a console window, not
>> in xterm or other tty/pty connections.
>
>Tcsh uses the insert mode in the terminal capability.  Cygwin
>console doesn't support it, nonetheless the termcap database
>tells it supports the insert mode. Therefore this problem can be
>solved by modifying the database as the following.
>
>cygwin:\
>	:xn@:op=\E[39;49m:Km=\E[M:im=:ei=:tc=linux:
>
>> Patches (probably to the Cygwin console code) welcome.
>
>I believe it is hard to implement the insert mode in the Cygwin DLL.

It should be fairly easy to do this.  There is a Windows API that 
can accomodate horizontal scrolling, I think: ScrollConsoleScreenBuffer.

cgf

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