RE: Problem: is it Vim or cygwin/bash setting?

[Glen Coakley <gcoakley at mqsoftware dot com>]

I believe this is a terminal 'thing' but I don't know exactly how to change
it. 

For more information:
	man term
	man termcap
etc. there is a terminal 'clear' setting.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: rich coco [mailto:rich.coco@verizon.net]
> Sent: Friday, March 30, 2001 1:35 AM
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: Problem: is it Vim or cygwin/bash setting?
> 
> 
> 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?
> 
> Tia,
> 
> - rich
> 
> --
> rich.coco@verizon.net
> 
> 

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