On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 10:50:29AM +0100, Bengt Larsson wrote: >Dawid Ferenczy wrote: >>The only difference (or one of few) was in the display size. The old laptop >>has a screen resolution of 1366 x 768 pixels, while the new one has >>1920 x 1080. And I'm using the whole screen for the terminal window. It's >>really strange, but if the terminal window height is greater than >>cca 62 lines, the screen buffer is cleared after quitting the LESS, VIM >>etc. No matters if Cygwin is executed inside the ConEMu or plain cmd.exe. >>Making the terminal window smaller solved the problem. Window height >>of 62 lines seems to be fine for me. Also, with some of greater height >>values, the LESS/VIM process sometimes crashed. > >There does seem to be a problem with the Windows console. I have 64 bit >Windows 7, and when a console window height*width is bigger than about >16384, it starts clearing the window after "less". This is running >"less" from the Windows shell. Not only does it clear the screen, it >clears it to black, even though I have a different background color. > >With mintty and bash it works for me at least up to 383 rows and 1364 >columns.
That's because mintty uses entirely Cygwin mechanisms and the console uses Windows. Windows has a limitation which we didn't know about. I'll fix this in the next couple of days. cgf -- 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
