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Re: Console issue
- From: Michael Hoffman <grouse at mail dot utexas dot edu>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2002 11:54:50 -0500 (Central Daylight Time)
- Subject: Re: Console issue
On Thu, 8 Aug 2002, Stephen C. Biggs wrote:
> I fire up a console, and hit enter a whole bunch of times so that the
> scroll bar moves a bit down.
>
> Then I go into vi on a big text file and while in vi, tap above the
> scroll thumb a few times to page up in the console. Then I do :q and
> when I start hitting enter again, the contents of what was in vi is still
> present in the screen buffer.
Use rxvt. Also, ^L will redraw the screen in vi and some other
termcap-using programs.
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Michael Hoffman <grouse@mail.utexas.edu>
The University of Texas at Austin
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