Re: Upcoming changes in the console handler

[Brad Barber <bradb at atg dot com>]

At 12:45 PM Monday 4/9/2001, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>just FYI. I have added two features to the console handler code in
>Cygwin. If you are living on the edge (using developer snapshots of
>Cygwin) you get these features working by changing the cygwin 
>termcap entry or the cygwin terminfo file. For tcsh and vim it's
>ok just to change termcap.

Good news.  I look forward to the new version.

I've also noticed that if you scroll the screen, a CR goes to the line
after the screen instead of the last line in the screen buffer.   As a
result, new text overwrites old text.

My memory is that the pre-cygwin version of tcsh, restored the screen
as it was prior to the scroll.

As a convenience, I think the 'escape' key should similarly restore the screen,

                                                                --Brad


>- Insert mode.
>
>  Tcsh users know that the command line has become scrubby when
>  trying to insert characters.
>
>  I have added the following control codes to the console:
>
>  "enter_insert_mode", termcap entry "im", terminfo entry "smir".
>  The escape sequence is
>  
>        ESC [ 4 h
>  
>  "exit_insert_mode", termcap entry "ei", terminfo entry "rmir".
>  The escape sequence is
>  
>        ESC [ 4 l
>
>- Save/restore console.
>
>  Vim users which also use vim on other OSes know that vim saves
>  the screen on startup and restores the screen on exit. For that
>  purpose it uses the "enter_ca_mode", "exit_ca_mode" capabilities
>  of a terminal. I have added two console codes to save and restore
>  the screen content:
>
>  Save console:         ESC [ ? 47 h
>  Restore console:      ESC [ ? 47 l
>
>  This allows creating the following termcap/terminfo entries
>  which are used by vim and which can simply get stolen by the
>  xterm entry:
>
>  "enter_ca_mode", termcap entry "ti", terminfo entry "smcup".
>  The escape sequence is:
>
>        ESC 7 ESC [ ? 47 h
>
>  "exit_ca_mode", termcap entry "te", terminfo entry "rmcup".
>  The escape sequence is:
>
>        ESC [ 2 J ESC [ ? 47 h ESC 8
>
>
>Corinna
>
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