Re: Screen crippled by applications using alternative screen

[Dawid Ferenczy <ferenczy at volny dot cz>]

Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please <at> cygwin.com> writes:

> I duplicated this.  The command window that I use doesn't exhibit this
> behavior.  I thought I'd tested pure cmd when making the recent spate of
> console handling changes but this one must have slipped by.
> 
> It's a shame that, when I repeatedly asked for testing, no one bothered
> to do so.
> 
> Anyway, this should be fixed in the latest snapshot:
> 
> http://cygwin.com/snapshots/
> 
> cgf


Hi Christopher,

after more extensive using, I have to notice that it's still quite a lot 
buggy. Sometimes there are parts of alternative screen in the scrollback 
buffer, sometimes for example vim hangs while starting or completely 
crashes.

You can see, that sometimes there are 2 blank lines between the prompts, 
sometimes only 1 on this screenshot: http://ferenczy.cz/tmp/cygwin/4.png

I don't know how to simulate crash, hang or scrollback buffer crippling yet, 
it seems that it happens randomly to me.

--
 David Ferenczy
 http://twitter.com/DawidFerenczy



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