On Jul 28 21:51, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > The situation I was thinking about is a bit different. Consider an only > partially filled console buffer. In contrast to your typical UNIX > terminal application the buffer doesn't grow. It's a fixed size and the > scroll bar reflects this buffer size right from the start. So the user > can scroll the console windows down into the not yet used buffer area, > i.e.: > > Before: > > buffer > +--- > | nonblank > | nonblank > | blank > | blank > | > [] cursor > | blank > | blank window > | blank ---+ > | blank | > | blank | > | blank ---+ > | blank > +--- > > Performing the clear screen in this situation, the cursor will be > repositioned to the first line in the current window and the blank lines > between the old cursor position and the new cursor position
... will invariably become part of the buffer. Sorry, I lost track mid-sentence. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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