Hi cygwin,
I have found that two lines in /etc/screenrc cause the nano editor to get one line off in its text buffer display when running gnu screen in a mintty terminal on cygwin64. The two lines are as follows (the ones beginning with "termcap" and "terminfo"): ># Do not use xterms alternate window buffer. ># This one would not add lines to the scrollback buffer. ># THESE CAUSE PROBLEMS WITH 64-BIT CYGWIN AND NANO EDITOR IN MINTTY > >termcap xterm|xterms|xs ti=\E7\E[?47l >terminfo xterm|xterms|xs ti=\E7\E[?47l Commenting them out (putting hash characters before "termcap" and "terminfo" solved the problem for me. I have never seen this issue on cygwin32. To reproduce: on cygwin64, start a mintty terminal, start gnu screen, then edit a file in nano. Soon you will see the text buffer display become garbled. Comment out the two lines identified above in /etc/screenrc and notice that the problem does not occur. Regards James R. Phillips -- 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
