This is the mail archive of the cygwin-patches@cygwin.com mailing list for the Cygwin project.


Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]

RE: New terminal capability in fhandler_console.cc




-----Original Message-----
From: luislozano@webhostix.com [mailto:luislozano@webhostix.com]On
Behalf Of Christopher Faylor
Sent: Viernes, 30 de Marzo del 2001 07:47 AM
To: cygpatch
Subject: Re: New terminal capability in fhandler_console.cc


On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 01:15:41PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I've just checked in a patch to fhandler_console.cc which adds a
>terminal capability to the windows console.
>
>ESC [ ? 47 h	==   Save screen content
>ESC [ ? 47 l    ==   Restore screen content
>
>This allows adding the termcap capabilities `ti' and `te' to the
>"cygwin" terminal entry in the same way as they are defined for
>xterm:
>
>	:te=\E[2J\E[?47l\E8:ti=\E7\E[?47h:
>
>That enables vim to restore the old screen content after quitting
>the same way in a console window as it does in a xterm window.

Nice.  I'm constantly surprised when vim doesn't act this way.

How about implementing "insert a character" for your next trick?

Then, we're getting dangerously close to vt100 functionality, I think.

cgf


Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]