Hi David Ferenczy, >> I'm still having issues with applications which use alternative screen >> for output (LESS, MAN). When I exit that application, its output stays >> on screen, prompt is displayed over it. > > [snip] > >> Example steps to reproduce the issue: >> >> 1. execute "man grep" >> 2. scroll down to the end (PAGE DOWN) >> 3. exit (press Q), result: http://ferenczy.cz/tmp/cygwin/1.png >> 4. execute "pwd", result: http://ferenczy.cz/tmp/cygwin/2.png >> 5. clear screen (CTRL + L), result: http://ferenczy.cz/tmp/cygwin/3.png >> >> Behavior is the same in plain cmd.exe, Console2 and ConEmu. MinTTY works >> fine. If I exit MAN on first page (without scrolling), the screen isn't >> crippled. >> >> To reach clean screen I have to repeatedly clear the screen (CTRL + L) >> until I browse whole MAN output (all pages). ... > > Same story here: MinTTY works, Windows Console (cmd.exe): crippled. > > My system: XP-sp3, Cygwin: 1.7.29-2 - 32 bits > > (behavior Windows Console was not crippled before .28 as far as I can > remember)
Applied snapshot (i.e. replaced cygwin1.dll) generated by cfg (26/4) ... @@# uname -a CYGWIN_NT-5.1 xp 1.7.30s(0.272/5/3) 20140426 17:41:38 i686 Cygwin @@# man grep @@# man grep @@# man grep @@# As far as I can tell, the problem has been solved. Pleasantly surprised ... Thank you Christopher. Henri -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
