End of buffer suppress scroll

Micha Nelissen mdvpost@hotmail.com
Mon May 26 16:50:00 GMT 2003


Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Mon, May 26, 2003 at 01:08:03PM +0200, Micha Nelissen wrote:
>> Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>> On Sat, May 24, 2003 at 03:41:53PM +0200, Micha Nelissen wrote:
>>> You explained this but I still think there is an escape sequence
>>> which controls what happens when a character shows up in the lower
>>> right corner.  I thought there was a termcap/terminfo setting for
>>> this, too.
>>
>> There is not. Windows always wraps after the last character to the
>> next line, except if you turn this off with a call to SetConsoleMode
>> and disable the WRAP_AT_EOL flag. Nowhere in the code is such a
>> call. The only possible conclusion is that it will always wrap.
>
> I am talking about a *standard* vtxx escape sequence.

Ah, but not implemented yet? If you mean that, I am back on track. So, how
to find out? I only found in termcap manual the 'auto-margin' capability
which has to do with it, but too many programs don't work anymore when it's
disabled. It disables all wrapping at end of line.

Regards,

Micha.



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