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Re: New terminal capability in fhandler_console.cc
- To: cygpatch <cygwin-patches at cygwin dot com>
- Subject: Re: New terminal capability in fhandler_console.cc
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>
- Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 10:47:28 -0500
- References: <20010330131541.P16622@cygbert.vinschen.de>
- Reply-To: cygwin-patches at cygwin dot com
On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 01:15:41PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I've just checked in a patch to fhandler_console.cc which adds a
>terminal capability to the windows console.
>
>ESC [ ? 47 h == Save screen content
>ESC [ ? 47 l == Restore screen content
>
>This allows adding the termcap capabilities `ti' and `te' to the
>"cygwin" terminal entry in the same way as they are defined for
>xterm:
>
> :te=\E[2J\E[?47l\E8:ti=\E7\E[?47h:
>
>That enables vim to restore the old screen content after quitting
>the same way in a console window as it does in a xterm window.
Nice. I'm constantly surprised when vim doesn't act this way.
How about implementing "insert a character" for your next trick?
Then, we're getting dangerously close to vt100 functionality, I think.
cgf