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Re: Clearing the buffer after quitting LESS, MAN, VIM etc.


On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 03:28:53AM +0400, Andrey Repin wrote:
>Greetings, Christopher Faylor!
>
>> So, I did go ahead and implement this in Cygwin by switching console
>> buffers.  It works great in a cmd window but not at all in a TCMD
>> <http://jpsoft.com/> window.  I have used jpsoftware products for longer
>> than I've been working on Cygwin so that's personally a bad bug for me.
>
>The only other console emulator I know is http://code.google.com/p/conemu-maximus5/

There are several more that I'm aware of.

>> I'm trying to file a bug report but I wonder if this will cause a
>> problem for other console programs if it doesn't work for a popular
>> commercial product.
>
>Not to break your hope, but I've had very poor experience with their tech
>support so far.
>(And yes, I'm using their products since 1998, at least.)

I've had the opposite experience.  I actually got a response to my query.  If
I can find some way of detecting when I'm in a TCMD environment I might just
fall back to the old code.

cgf

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