Re: Console issue

["John Vincent" <jpv50 at hotmail dot com>]

Hi,

When using "vi" don't use the scroll bar. "vi" is designed
to work on a terminal, or a window acting like a terminal.

You should use the page-up and page-down keys on the keyboard
instead.

/John Vincent.


> From: "Stephen C. Biggs" <yyyyy50@hotpop.com>
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: Console issue
> Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2002 06:56:13 -0700
>
> Is this a known issue?
>
> I have my cygwin shortcut properties modified in the layout to allow for
> 9999 screen buffer lines.
> I fire up a console, and hit enter a whole bunch of times so that the
> scroll bar moves a bit down.
>
> Then I go into vi on a big text file and while in vi, tap above the
> scroll thumb a few times to page up in the console.  Then I do :q and
> when I start hitting enter again, the contents of what was in vi is still
> present in the screen buffer.  This means that I have to hit enter a lot
> of times to get past it.
>
> I hope I explained this understandably.
>
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