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Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 12:47:55 -0400
From: "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed AT gmail DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Magic disappearing "e"
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NL = Ned Ludd
NL> I have a strange issue.  The letter "e" magically disappears in my
NL> cygwin bash terminal.
NL>
NL> If I type "e", and only the "e", at the prompt, nothing appears until
NL> I type the next character.
NL>
NL> If I type "eeeeee", only the first one "hides".  The others appear normally.

Like Christopher said, that sounds like a corrupted .inputrc to me.

FL = Francis Litterio
FL> This seems similar to the behavior when you are SSH'ed into a remote
FL> host

It's precisely the behavior you would see if you typed "ssh -ee
hostname", in fact.

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