Re: Linefeed without carriage return after quitting vim

[Ken Brown <kbrown at cornell dot edu>]

On 7/5/2012 1:44 AM, Sumudu Fernando wrote:
> Using the latest cygwin DLL (1.7.15-1) I am routinely encountering a
> strange issue when quitting vim.  This only occurs if I have used ^Z
> to suspend vim, restored it with fg, and later quit.  IOW things work
> normally if I never suspend vim.
>
> A problematic session looks something like:
> --------
> [~]$ vim
>
> [1]+  Stopped                 vim
> [~]$ fg
>         vim
>            [~]$
> --------
>
> The problem is evident in the last two lines which should be flush
> with the left margin.  For comparison, substituing 'less' for 'vim':
> --------
> [~]$ less /Cygwin.bat
>
> [1]+  Stopped                 less -r /Cygwin.bat
> [~]$ fg
> less -r /Cygwin.bat
> [~]$
> --------
>
> The terminal behaves normally so it doesn't seem like any settings get
> corrupted (pressing enter gives me a properly-aligned prompt).
> Currently, stty just outputs:
>
> speed 38400 baud; line = 0;
>
> but I have tried various settings of the newline / CR translations to no avail.
>
> Interestingly, the "info" program exhibits the same behaviour.  I
> thought maybe it would affect other "fullscreen" programs like "less"
> or "man", but I couldn't reproduce it with those two (as shown above).
>
> Any ideas what could be causing this / how to further diagnose?  It's
> not a killer but it certainly looks weird.  This used to happen with
> older cygwin dll's but IIRC it was never so reliably reproducible.

I don't know the cause, but I often find that 'stty sane' fixes this 
kind of problem.

Ken

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