On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 07:22:44PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 10:47:28AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> 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?
>
>I was near to implement that using the ScrollConsoleScreenBuffer
>capability but then I saw that it's more work than I have time
>to invest currently. Dumb scrolling to the right, ok, but wrapping
>to the next line?!? Needs at least a day. Perhaps this weekend...
I don't think it works that way, does it? I just tried this. There
is no wrapping. Characters at the end of the line are truncated.
I think this means that insert char and delete char are pretty easy
to do.
cgf
