vim quits and cygwin window contents not restored

Charles Wilson cwilson@ece.gatech.edu
Tue Mar 25 09:18:00 GMT 2003


Sorry, I haven't been following this thread.  See below.

Randall wrote:
>>> So, my bet is on the terminfo for cygwin as the locus of the problem, 
>>> whatever it is. Other reasonable hypotheses are that there's problem 
>>> in ncurses or in how Vim uses it.

Larry wrote:
>> Yeah, the terminfo change is the "problem".   Updating to 5.3-1 allows 
>> me to reproduce the behavior.  Reverting to 5.2-3 restores the 
>> original behavior.

Randall wrote:
> Does the presence of quote marks indicate you don't consider this a 
> problem?
> 
> The wording of the "updating ..." and "reverting ..." sentences is 
> ambiguous to me. Are you saying that you do see the failure to restore 
> the original window contents when Vim is quit or suspended under 
> terminfo-5.3-1 and see the proper restore behavior under 5.2-3?

terminfo is a fork from ncurses -- but I try to keep it sync'ed. 
Recently, I built ncurses-5.3 for cygwin (it's available as a 'test' 
package right now) and while doing so, I resync'ed terminfo to the 
ncurses base.

I did this because the ncurses maintainer finally folded in most of 
Earnie Boyd's original changes for the "cygwin" terminal.  However, he 
did not include all of them.

In my foolishness, I figured that if the upstream maintainer had seen 
Earnie's patches, but opted to leave out a few codes, that he must have 
had a good reason to do so.  So I followed his lead.  (I never noticed a 
problem pre-release, because I do most of my work in an rxvt window; I 
did only minimal testing in a "DOSbox" TERM=cygwin shell.  Sorry. 
[doesn't everybody use rxvt?? <g>] )

I'll try to figure out which parts are missing, and reinstate them -- 
look for a new release (of terminfo-) sometime in the next week.

--Chuck



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