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Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 13:30:03 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Problem: is it Vim or cygwin/bash setting?
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In-Reply-To: <3AC43945.AAE38BD5@verizon.net>; from rich.coco@verizon.net on Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 02:44:05AM -0500

On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 02:44:05AM -0500, rich coco wrote:
> In an older B20 release of cygwin, when i used Vim to edit a file and
> eventually exited, my window reverted to the state it was in prior to
> the vim session (ie, the text being editied by vim is no longer
> visible).
> 
> I upgraded to the latest cygwin release (i was missing groff,
> ghostscript, lots more...) and noticed that the above behavior - which i
> 
> prefer - does not occur. That is, when I quit my Vim session, the text I
> 
> was editing stays on my screen, clobbering the pre-vim context.
> 
> i cannot determine if this is a Vim configuration thing or a
> shell-configuration thing.
> What can I modify - if anything - to get the behavior i want?

The cygwin console mode currently doesn't support that. I have
just added that to the CVS repository. It will be available in the
next version of Cygwin.

Corinna

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