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Re: Clearing the buffer after quitting LESS, MAN, VIM etc.
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2014 01:56:26 -0500
- Subject: Re: Clearing the buffer after quitting LESS, MAN, VIM etc.
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On Fri, Jan 03, 2014 at 12:43:10AM +0000, Dawid Ferenczy wrote:
>Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please <at> cygwin.com> writes:
>
>> >That's because mintty uses entirely Cygwin mechanisms and the console
>> >uses Windows. Windows has a limitation which we didn't know about.
>> >I'll fix this in the next couple of days.
>>
>> This bug should be fixed in today's snapshot (when it shows up):
>>
>> http://cygwin.com/snapshots/
>>
>> It will, of course, be in the next Cygwin release but there is no fixed
>> date for when that will be available.
>
>
>
>Hi Christopher,
>
>it's fixed for me too! I really appreciate your support. You wrote that
>you'll fix it in couple of days, not in a few hours :) >Especially that you
>have done it on New Year's Eve. You have my respect. Thank you! You really
>improved a quality of my life :) (this issue was very annoying for me).
Problems like that interfere with my sleep so it's best to get them out
of the way before I go to bed. :-)
>Could you briefly describe what was the nature of that limitation and how did
>you fixed it, please? (technically, I'm a developer too)
The problem is described here:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14699043/replacement-to-systemcolor
in the first Answer.
I found this after noticing the strange behavior of ReadConsoleOutput.
>Thank you and have happy and successful year 2014!
You're welcome.
cgf
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