Screen overdraw effect

Corinna Vinschen cygwin@cygwin.com
Tue Sep 11 02:34:00 GMT 2001


On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 12:03:51AM -0500, Alex Malinovich wrote:
> I just recently updated my installation of Cygwin and I'm getting some
> weird 'anomalies.' I don't know exactly what was updated as there was a
> list of at least a dozen new items, but my original install was from
> June, and the update was done today. Running Cygwin on Windows 2000 with
> the "old version" (again, sorry I can't be more descriptive. :( ) less
> displayed everything just fine. With the new version (not even sure if
> less was one of the updates) My screen decides to go back in time after
> I finish viewing a document.
> 
> e.g.
> $ ls
> <shows directory listing>
> 
> $ less junk.txt
> <shows contents of junk.txt>
> 
> <I push "q">
> 
> "$" prompt appears at a random spot on the screen with remnants of the
> ls scattered throughout, both above and below the current prompt.

Check your $TERM, set it to `cygwin'.  The behaviour to restore
the old screen is the default for less _if_ it finds a terminal
init/deinit control sequence in termcap.  The latest termcap
of Cygwin knows this feature.  If you don't want it, start
less with the -X option.

Corinna

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