Delete and insert line does not work in cygwin about terminal-kit HOT 7 OPEN

Hi,

To be honest, I know little about Windows' terminals, but we can try to figure out what happens together. Also Windows know only a small subset of escape sequences common to UNIX-like system, but I guess it is at least capable of deleting and inserting line.

Firstly, what terminal exactly is used? Is it the built-in windows terminal? Or does Cygwin use something different (I used Cygwin once in my life 10 years ago, so I don't exactly remember how it works).

Can you copy-paste the output of ./sample/detect-terminal-test.js (from Terminal-kit root directory)?

Does deleteLine() and insertLine() output some nasty sequences or does it fail absolutely silently?

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I'm running Git Bash for Widows. https://git-scm.com/downloads

$ node detect-terminal-test.js

== Environment variable ==

$TERM: cygwin
$COLORTERM:
$VTE_VERSION:


== Using simple terminal guessing ==

.guessTerminal(): {"appId":"cygwin","safe":true,"ssh":false}
Terminal name:
Terminal app ID: cygwin
Generic terminal: cygwin
Config file: xterm.generic.js


== Using advanced terminal detection ==

.getParentTerminalInfo() Error: Command failed: ps: illegal option -- h
Usage ps [-aefl] [-u uid]
-f = show process uids, ppids
-l = show process uids, ppids, pgids, winpids
-u uid = list processes owned by uid
-a, -e = show processes of all users
-s = show process summary
-W = show windows as well as cygwin processes

Terminal name:
Terminal app ID: cygwin
Generic terminal: cygwin
Config file: xterm.generic.js

It fails silently..

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Did some googling.. It seems like delete and insert line is not supported by the windows terminal.

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Can you configure it to use another terminal?

I remember using Console2 last time I used Git on Windows.

Also I found this question on unix.stackexchange.com that might help.

When I run TERM=cygwin infocmp it says that Cygwin supports the insert and delete line escape sequence.

Also I don't know why the TERM environment variable is set to cygwin: Cygwin is not a terminal -_-'

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Meh.. I sort of gave it up.. I tried mintty, but it had even bigger problems: term size was 0x0 and keyboard capture didn't really work.

Windows isn't my platform anymore either. I just wanted to check if my rebase app worked or not.

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cygwin & msys (git for win) is using Mintty, I think it's support all control sequence, including that even not supported by gnome-terminal or macos default terminal.

a fresh install cygwin or msys will always set TERM=xterm

using any .exe not compiled with cygwin or mingw (and the type and version should match mintty's) will cause 0x0 terminal size, this is not able to resolve right now.

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@GongT Terminal-kit get the terminal size directly from Node.js, see the official doc here and here.
I'm affraid but unless if you can confirm that those values are correctly reported by Node.js, I cannot do anything for you...

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