Re: Cygwin 1.7 ssh and window size

[Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>]

On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 11:05:58PM -0700, Karl M wrote:
>My first email had a cygcheck and the following steps to reproduce the
>symptoms.
>
>I just noticed the following with Cygwin 1.7, and ssh (and vi in this
>example), on Vista Business SP2.
>
>If I (1) open a bash cygwin window from the normal installed shortcut
>(cmd.exe).
>
>(2) drag the bottom edge of the window down to enlarge it.
>
>(3) ssh localhost (or to another host).
>
>(4) edit a file with vi.
>
>Then only a portion of the window is used, the size of the original
>window before enlarging it.
>
>If I (5) exit vi, and exit the ssh session.
>
>(6) ssh localhost (or to another host).
>
>(7) edit a file with vi.
>
>Then the entire window is used for editing.

As I mentioned in another thread, Cygwin's handling of console window
size changes is not perfect.  It is hampered by what Windows provides.
I don't see any difference between Cygwin 1.5 and Cygwin 1.7 in this
regard and I would not have expected any since there were no changes
in that part of the code.

cgf

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