Problem: is it Vim or cygwin/bash setting?

rich coco rich.coco@verizon.net
Fri Mar 30 07:29:00 GMT 2001


Corinna -

thanks so much for your response. i was hoping that maybe there was a termcap
edit i could make. i judge from your email that the answer is "no".

when is the next release due? i didn't think there was going to be another
freeware release?

tx,

- rich

Corinna Vinschen wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 02:44:05AM -0500, rich coco wrote:
> > In an older B20 release of cygwin, when i used Vim to edit a file and
> > eventually exited, my window reverted to the state it was in prior to
> > the vim session (ie, the text being editied by vim is no longer
> > visible).
> >
> > I upgraded to the latest cygwin release (i was missing groff,
> > ghostscript, lots more...) and noticed that the above behavior - which i
> >
> > prefer - does not occur. That is, when I quit my Vim session, the text I
> >
> > was editing stays on my screen, clobbering the pre-vim context.
> >
> > i cannot determine if this is a Vim configuration thing or a
> > shell-configuration thing.
> > What can I modify - if anything - to get the behavior i want?
>
> The cygwin console mode currently doesn't support that. I have
> just added that to the CVS repository. It will be available in the
> next version of Cygwin.
>
> Corinna
>
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