vim quits and cygwin window contents not restored

[Randall R Schulz]

Larry,

At 07:18 2003-03-25, lhall@pop.ma.ultranet.com wrote:
>Hi Randall,
>
>Oh it's a problem alright.  I'm just not sure the exact source and
>whether this functionality is in conflict with something else that 5.3-1
>was trying to fix.  I looked at the email archives for discussions
>surrounding terminfo and couldn't find anything current, except for
>Chuck's announcement and credit given to Thomas Dickey for some Cygwin
>terminal changes.  Hm, guess I should've checked cygwin-apps too.  OK,
>that's on my list.
>
>Your interpretation of "updating" and "reverting" below is correct.  It
>works for me with terminfo 5.2-3 and doesn't work with 5.3-1.  I'm using
>vim 6.1.300-1 in a cmd.exe window running bash (2.05b-8).

OK. So I guess we can consider the symptom confirmed.

Igor's right. We need a name for the windows that are created for 
non-gui, character subsystem. Surely CMD.EXE is not involved in your 
scenario (which is the one I routinely use, too). I think "console" is OK.

When Jurgen mentioned "top" in his report on the output anomalies in 
"procps" I checked it for this symptom. It uses ncurses6 and also fails 
to restore the window contents.


Randall Schulz


>Larry
>
>Original Message:
>-----------------
>From: Randall R Schulz rrschulz@cris.com
>Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 20:14:55 -0800
>To: cygwin@cygwin.com
>Subject: Re: vim quits and cygwin window contents not restored
>
>
>Larry,
>
>At 19:38 2003-03-24, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc.) wrote:
> >Randall R Schulz wrote:
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>Some salient facts:
> >>
> >>...
> >>
> >>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.
> >
> >
> >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.
>
>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?
>
>
> >--
> >Larry Hall
>
>
>Randall Schulz


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