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Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 20:19:22 -0400
Message-Id: <200007260019.UAA14196@envy.delorie.com>
From: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
To: KendallB AT scitechsoft DOT com
CC: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
In-reply-to: <200007251049870.SM00160@KENDALLB>
Subject: Re: Couple of nits about Cygwin
References:  <200007251049870 DOT SM00160 AT KENDALLB>


>  1. When you start a bash shell, the cursor flashes at a reasonable 
> rate, but when you start typing it generally disappears from view. 

Found it.  WriteFile() to the console causes the cursor to dissapear
for a bit.  Setting the cursor position makes it show up again.  Try
the attached patch (I'll try it myself later, but the machine is in
the middle of a big build I don't want to interrupt).

Index: fhandler_console.cc
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/src/src/winsup/cygwin/fhandler_console.cc,v
retrieving revision 1.9
diff -p -2 -r1.9 fhandler_console.cc
*** fhandler_console.cc	2000/07/04 02:26:20	1.9
--- fhandler_console.cc	2000/07/26 00:17:37
*************** fhandler_console::write (const void *vsr
*** 1237,1240 ****
--- 1237,1242 ----
    syscall_printf ("%d = write_console (,..%d)", len, len);
  
+   cursor_rel (0,0); /* to make cursor appear on the screen immediately */
+ 
    return len;
  }

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