From: cgf AT cygnus DOT com (Christopher Faylor)
Subject: Re: console problem with tcsh (winsup980914-snapshot)
16 Sep 1998 15:00:31 -0700
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To: Corinna Vinschen <corinna DOT vinschen AT cityweb DOT de>,
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On Wed, Sep 16, 1998 at 10:59:59PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
>> I don't notice this behavior in either bash or csh.  I'm not aware
>> of any changes in console behavior in the recent snapshot.  Do you
>> have your TERM=linux?  What are the properties of your console window,
>> i.e., does it have scroll bars?
>>
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>> cgf AT cygnus DOT com
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>
>I have setenv TERM ansi, but setenv TERM linux produces same result.
>Properties:
>Options:   cmd bufsiz 50, quickedit, insertmode
>Font:      face 'lucida console', size 12
>Layout:    screenbufsize 100 lines by 80 cols, with scrollbars
>
>The tcsh sources are original, not patched.
>
>And this doesn't occure with bash. I think, the difference
>between them is on bash-side the usage of gnu-readline.
>Is it all the same or does this change the things?
>
>I have tested it with CYGWIN32='tty'. So, the inverting
>doesn't occure, but now vim 5.0 doesn't recognize
>console line setting. It ever works with 25 lines :-(((

The correct TERM setting for the CYGWIN console is 'linux'.
I can't explain the problem you're having.  Sorry.

Maybe someone else on the list will be able to help.

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