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Re: Incorrect COLUMN and LINES
- From: Nicholas Wourms <nwourms at yahoo dot com>
- To: Jehan <nahor at bravobrava dot com>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2002 11:58:49 -0700 (PDT)
- Subject: Re: Incorrect COLUMN and LINES
--- Jehan <nahor@bravobrava.com> wrote:
> Lapo Luchini wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>> in less/man for instance, or the whole display of emacs).
> >> ^^^^^
> >> Use vi.
> >> 'Nuff said.
> >>
> > Or nano, works like a charm also if resized after opening 0=)
> >
>
> Under XWin maybe (as does emacs, and vi, and everything else), but it
> doesn't work in the Windows console (cygwin terminal). If you are
> editing a several pages long file and reduce the height of nano
> significantly (by half works "well" enough for me), the screen get bad
> also (title bar disappears, bottom menu too).
> And as a general matter, I doubt than *any* application that tries to
> display text at specific location on the screen would work on the
> console. The problem is that if the application display something below
> the screen, the console scrolls. And if the console scrolls, the origin
> (coordinate 0,0) moves.
>
> Jehan
Jehan,
Rxvt.exe is a full native win32 binary, just double click it and you
should be good to go... Don't use the windows console, it sucks.
Cheers,
Nicholas
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