> For whatever reason I set my newly installed environment to use 'xterm' mode > and ran across this bug. > > The archives led me to > http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2013-07/msg00029.html > and specifically > > # Set the hardstatus prop on gui terms to set the titlebar/icon title > > termcapinfo xterm*|rxvt*|kterm*|Eterm*|cygwin > > hs:ts=\E]0;:fs=\007:ds=\E]0;\007 > > and wanted to mention that with both the -1 and -2 releases, even with the > 'termcapinfo' override in the above post the hardstatus and caption lines end > up 1 line off the bottom IFF $TERM=xterm be it in an honest to goodness X11 > xterm or the windows terminal. This causes everything to fail to properly > scroll. Once a single screen worth of output is sent, everything just gets > put on the last line. This obviously is not a good thing. > > However if $TERM is any of 'cygwin', 'xterm-vt220', 'xterm-256color', > 'vt100', or 'vt220' it works just fine since the offending 'cs' stanza is > never set like below. > > termcap xterm|fptwist hs@:cs=\E[%i%d;%dr:im=\E[4h:ei=\E[4l > terminfo xterm|fptwist hs@:cs=\E[%i%p1%d;%p2%dr:im=\E[4h:ei=\E[4l > > In my ~/.screenrc it was sufficient to use > > termcapinfo xterm* cs > > to restore correct behavior. Unfortunately I haven't a clue what the various > escape sequences mean.
Matthew, thanks for reporting that. So far I'm not able to reproduce it. Normally I have TERM=xterm-256color outside of screen. I reset it to TERM=xterm and started a new instance of screen, and although I set the hardstatus line, I can't find any problems with scrolling. Does anyone else observe this problem? What's the proposed solution? Remove the two lines you cited above? See http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2013-10/msg00369.html for another recent screen scrolling issue that I couldn't reproduce. > As a side note I think it would be a good idea to wrap all termcap|info lines > with single quotes at least for consistency. I also mostly don't have a clue what the escape sequences mean, although I've looked up a few of them when I had to. Mostly that's deep terminal magic, and I don't mess with it, just pass on what comes from upstream or I'm otherwise told is needed. Andrew -- 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
