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Date: | Sat, 25 Jan 2014 17:30:40 -0500 |
From: | "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <reply-to-list-only-lh AT cygwin DOT com> |
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Subject: | Re: mintty shell gets frequent "8~" strings inserted into input |
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On 1/25/2014 5:27 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > On 1/24/2014 9:40 PM, KARR, DAVID wrote: >>> -----Original Message----- >>> Larry Hall (Cygwin) >>> Sent: Friday, January 24, 2014 12:14 PM >>> Subject: Re: mintty shell gets frequent "8~" strings inserted into input >>> >>> On 1/24/2014 2:57 PM, KARR, DAVID wrote: >>>>> -----Original Message----- >>>>> Larry Hall (Cygwin) >>>>> Sent: Friday, January 24, 2014 11:35 AM >>>>> Subject: Re: mintty shell gets frequent "8~" strings inserted into input >>>>> >>>>> On 1/24/2014 2:00 PM, KARR, DAVID wrote: >>>>>> I'm on Cygwin 1.7.26 on Win7. >>>>>> >>>>>> I run mintty with "C:\Cygwin\bin\mintty.exe -e /bin/bash --login". >>>>>> >>>>>> Every minute or so, or randomly, my mintty shell prompt gets the string >>>>>> "8~" inserted. If I leave the shell there, it will end up with a string >>> of >>>>>> them. What might be causing this? >>>>> >>>>> Check the archives. I think there was a similar report that finally >>>>> resolved itself as an overly zealous virus checker or something similar. >>>> >>>> Any idea what to search for? I've already searched the internet and the >>>> cygwin archives several months back with obvious search strings. >>> >>> This is what I was thinking of: >>> >>> <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2013-10/msg00069.html> >> >> I don't know where the subject of virus scanners comes in here. I simply >> added the suggested line to ~/.inputrc and it seemed to resolve the >> problem. I'm not quite certain what it did, but I do know it fixed my >> current problem. > > The thread actually mentions some software to disable screen-savers. This > is apparently what my poor memory filtered out and substituted virus > scanners for. > > Since this seems to be a common bash problem, I wonder if it makes sense > to add the "\e[" sequence to the skeleton .inputrc file to avoid this issue > at least on new installs. David, would you be willing to add it? > Ouch! I just realized that the David I mentioned above could be interpreted as the OP, David Karr, instead of the base-files package maintainer, David Sastre Medina. I meant the latter. Sorry for any confusion. -- Larry _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
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