[PATCH] Strange behavior of cmd.exe when hammered with clear screen operations from Cygwin program.

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Jul 28 21:51, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> However, the former cursor position in the buffer is still known
> at clear screen time.  It's stored in dev_console::dwEnd.  So what
> I was thinking about is to check the above situation and then, rather
> then to just keep it as is, move the console window  and the cursor
> position up to the line right after the former cursor position, i.e:
> 
> After (desired?):
> 
>    buffer
>    +---
>    | nonblank
>    | nonblank
>    | blank
>    | blank      window
>    | >          ---+
>    | > [] cursor   |
>    | blank         |
>    | blank      ---+
>    | blank
>    | blank
>    | blank
>    | blank
>    +---
> 
> Does that make sense or am I still missing something?

I applied a patch to perform this action.  It's in the latest
2.6.0-0.5 test release I just announced.


Corinna

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