Hi Shaddy. There you go again. > The reason seems to be that the Debian screen package packages a custom > /etc/screenrc that does not include this explicit term capability: > > > # > # Do not use xterms alternate window buffer. > # This one would not add lines to the scrollback buffer. > termcap xterm|xterms|xs ti=\E7\E[?47l > terminfo xterm|xterms|xs ti=\E7\E[?47l > > > If I comment these out, my screen issue is resolved. > > I'm not suggesting this is a problem with Cygwin screen... it is using > the upstream settings. In fact, I am not confident to say where the > fault lies. Perhaps screen is right to use these sequences, but the > xterms used (putty and mintty) aren't doing the right thing?
I haven't seen the screen corruption you describe - not sure why. So it's hard for me to test the fix. But I did comment out those 2 entries, start a new screen, and attach and detach several times, and it doesn't seem to cause any harm. I don't know whose fault the problem is either, but it's probably a particularity of Cygwin. So I'm happy to package the fix as long as it doesn't create any problems. So I'll upload a test release, to see if we can get some other people to test. Andrew -- 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
