save/restore the console buffer.

[Kazuhiro Fujieda]

>>> On Sat, 25 Aug 2001 21:05:56 -0400
>>> Christopher Faylor <cgf@redhat.com> said:

> Huh.  Good point.  I think that vim used to do the right thing.
> Did something change?  It works fine with less.

Less is compiled not with ncurses but termcap.  The /etc/termcap
in the current termcap package doesn't has `ti' and `te'
capabilities for cygwin, so less doesn't use the feature at all.

Anyway, it didn't work with less even when I added these entries
to /etc/termcap.
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  | AIST      Kazuhiro Fujieda <fujieda@jaist.ac.jp>
  | HOKURIKU  Center for Information Science
o_/ 1990      Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

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