Console issue

[John Vincent]

Hi,

When using "vi" don't use the scroll bar. "vi" is designed
to work on a terminal, or a window acting like a terminal.

You should use the page-up and page-down keys on the keyboard
instead.

/John Vincent.


>From: "Stephen C. Biggs" <yyyyy50@hotpop.com>
>To: cygwin@cygwin.com
>Subject: Console issue
>Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2002 06:56:13 -0700
>
>Is this a known issue?
>
>I have my cygwin shortcut properties modified in the layout to allow for
>9999 screen buffer lines.
>I fire up a console, and hit enter a whole bunch of times so that the
>scroll bar moves a bit down.
>
>Then I go into vi on a big text file and while in vi, tap above the
>scroll thumb a few times to page up in the console.  Then I do :q and
>when I start hitting enter again, the contents of what was in vi is still
>present in the screen buffer.  This means that I have to hit enter a lot
>of times to get past it.
>
>I hope I explained this understandably.
>
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