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Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 18:15:23 -0800 (Pacific Standard Time)
From: Jason Tiller <jtiller AT sjm DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: RE: 'less' can't determine terminal size?
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Hi, Sergei, :)

Thank you for the speedy response!

On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Sergei Okhapkin wrote:

> What is the output of "stty -a" inside rxvt window?

$ stty -a
speed 38400 baud; rows 24; columns 80; line = 0;
intr = ^C; quit = ^\; erase = ^H; kill = ^U; eof = ^D; eol = <undef>;
eol2 = <undef>; start = ^Q; stop = ^S; susp = ^Z; rprnt = ^R; werase = ^W;
lnext = ^V; flush = ^O; min = 1; time = 0;
-parenb -parodd cs8 -hupcl -cstopb cread -clocal -crtscts
-ignbrk brkint ignpar -parmrk -inpck -istrip -inlcr -igncr icrnl ixon -ixoff
-iuclc -ixany imaxbel
opost -olcuc -ocrnl onlcr -onocr -onlret -ofill -ofdel nl0 cr0 tab0 bs0 vt0 ff0
isig icanon iexten echo echoe echok -echonl -noflsh -tostop echoctl echoke

This is interesting, since the size of the window (as shown when I
turn on line numbers ('-N') in 'less') is actually *25* lines high
(columns are correct at 80).

After resizing the rxvt window to increase the number of lines by 1,
'stty -a' correctly shows that there are 26 rows.  Weird!

Thanks for any ideas,

---Jason

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tiller, Jason [mailto:jtiller AT sjm DOT com]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 9:04 PM
> To: 'cygwin AT cygwin DOT com'
> Subject: 'less' can't determine terminal size?
>
>
> Hi, All, :)
>
> I updated my installation recently, and I'm now suffering from an odd
> problem with less.  I hope that somebody can point me in a direction for
> my own investigations.  I had been running 1.3.12, I believe - after the
> refresh on Friday my cygwin1.dll is at 1.3.15.  bash is 2.05b.0(7).  I
> run bash via rxvt-2.7.2-14.  Here's my rxvt run command:
>
> C:\WINNT\system32\cmd.exe /c start C:\cygwin\bin\rxvt.exe -tn "rxvt" -fg
> grey -bg black -fn "Fixedsys" -sr -sl 5000 -e /bin/bash --login -i
>
> I believe these environment variables are relevant:
>
> TERM=rxvt
> LESS=iFMSX# 8
> CYGWIN=tty nontsec
>
> My problem is this: 'less' no longer properly updates the screen when I
> scroll through a file.  Paging forward is fine, but when trying to
> scroll by line ('j' or 'e'), 'less' tells me that it is moving through
> the file, but the display doesn't update.  The status line (which '-M'
> enables) shows the currently displayed lines changing ('75-97', '76-98',
> 77-99', etc.), but the displayed data doesn't change.  Paging forward
> again causes the screen to update properly.
>
> Also, when I scroll backward ('k'), the normally-blank command line
> (bottom
> line) becomes filled with the previous status line.  So, if I'm at the
> bottom of the file and the bottom two lines are:
>
> =====>
> .bash_profile lines 105-127/127 (END)
>
> <=====
>
> Then, after pressing 'k', the bottom two lines will read:
>
> =====>
> .bash_profile lines 104-126/127 99%
> .bash_profile lines 105-127/127 (END)
> <=====
>
> This *seems* to mean to me that 'less' can't determine the right size my
> rxvt window.  My theory is reinforced because 'less' suddenly finds its
> brains again when I resize the window manually.
>
> How should I go about fixing this?  Thanks in advance for any pointers,
>
> ---Jason Tiller
>
>
>
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