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Subject:	Re: 1.7 - Odd behaviour with vim
From:	Andy Koppe <andy DOT koppe AT gmail DOT com>
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What might be happening is that you're seeing previous contents of the
"alternate screen", i.e. whatever the last program that used it left
there. That's been annoying me on occasion anyway, and I'll have to
investigate how other terminals handle that, i.e. whether they clear
the alternate screen when switching to it.

Andy


2009/2/10 Chris Sutcliffe <ir0nh34d AT gmail DOT com>:
> When edit a file (via :e <filename>) with vim under Cygwin 1.7 the
> first time I'm opened a cygwin terminal (mintty), there is a message
> that briefly pops up and seems to be overwritten by the vim display.
> In the command bar I'm left with:
>
> http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#using-pathnames
>
> What's odd is that if I quit vim (:q) and launch vim again (in the
> same terminal), it behaves as expected.  I assume there is some flag
> being tripped?  Is it possible to suppress the message that's popping
> up?
>
> Cheers!
>
> Chris
>
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