From: jp@nuancecom.com (JP Shipherd) Subject: Re: xterm for win32 4 Mar 1997 14:24:10 -0800 Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <3.0.32.19970304121209.009dd9c0.cygnus.gnu-win32@awesome.nuance.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Sender: jp@awesome.nuance.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Original-To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com Original-Cc: Vim users mailing list Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com (Vimmers, the following is a thread from the cygnus gnu-win32 project mailing list. To cut to the chase read from the bottom up:) >>> JP> Has anyone found anything like an xterm that they can use as a >>> JP> substitue for the cmd window on NT? >>> >>> JP> I really miss the scroll bar and simple cut and paste. >>> >>> If you just want these two items you can add them easily to your >>>native NT command window. Just access the "Properties" menu entry on >>>the command prompt and set the "Screen Buffer Size" field in the >>>"layout" tab control. Setting the "Height" to something like 2000 >>>gives a nice scroll buffer, like an xterm. >> >>This is definitly handy but after 2000 lines the scroll bar just >>evaporates. Instead of getting rid of the oldest 1 every time it needs to >>add a new one (like an xterm does). This can be quite disconcerting. > >I don't seem to have the problem JP is eluding to though, my scrollbar is >just fine regardless of how many line scroll by, obviously only the last >2000 are accessible once I scroll more lines than that. I can't imagine why >yours simply disappears? > My mistake. The scroll bar doesn't misbehave. The problem seems to be a combination of Vim (Vi Improved) v4.6b and the BASH shell. When I start vim the scrollbar goes away. Then when I exit it comes back. Sometimes. Sometimes it stays away. If I exit bash and go back to the DOS command prompt the scroll bar re-appears. This never happens if I run VIM in a plain DOS window, but if I'm also running BASH it doesn't always come back (but sometimes it does). --jp - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".