On Oct 4 22:32, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Tue, Oct 04, 2011 at 06:18:33PM -0700, jan.kolar wrote: > > > > > >Corinna Vinschen-2 wrote: > >> > >> On Sep 26 14:18, Paul Maier wrote: > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> scrolling up the console output to review the console history, then > >>> pressing > >>> Enter scrambles the console. > >> > >> That's a long standing behaviour of the Cygwin console emulation. > >> I guess it can be fixed, but somebody will have to do it. In the > >> meantime, try mintty as terminal. > >> > >> > >> Corinna > >> > >> -- > >> Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to > >> Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com > >> Red Hat > >> > >> > > > >The problem is as below. > >However it needs some thinking, checking and testing, since I have no idea > >what that line was needed for. > > > >diff --git i/fhandler_console.cc w/fhandler_console.cc > >index 74b5cbd..f29426d 100644 > >--- i/fhandler_console.cc > >+++ w/fhandler_console.cc > >@@ -1089,7 +1127,27 @@ fhandler_console::cursor_set (bool rel_to_top, int x, > >int y) > > > > dev_state->fillin_info (get_output_handle ()); > > if (y > dev_state->info.winBottom) > >- y = dev_state->info.winBottom; > >+ y = y; > > Yeah. Yeah. Nice.
I applied a matching patch. I tested this with various command line and ncurses applications, and I didn't find any case where the behaviour was worse than before. In contrast, scrolling back to the old cursor position on output is much more intuitive than the old behaviour. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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
