X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Francis Litterio Subject: Re: Magic disappearing "e" Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 12:10:47 -0400 Lines: 20 Message-ID: References: <65a36ed50808252114l45ba2411n68cd4143bd1df21a@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Draft-From: ("nntp+news.gmane.org:gmane.os.cygwin" 100106) X-Random-Quote: Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. -- Lord Acton, in a letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton, April 3, 1887 User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (windows-nt) X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Ned Ludd wrote: > I have a strange issue. The letter "e" magically disappears in my > cygwin bash terminal. > > If I type "e", and only the "e", at the prompt, nothing appears until > I type the next character. > > If I type "eeeeee", only the first one "hides". The others appear normally. This seems similar to the behavior when you are SSH'ed into a remote host and you type a command that starts with '~' (the SSH escape character). Until the SSH client sees the next character it doesn't know whether to process the '~' as a normal input character or to handle a special local command (e.g. "~." disconnects, "~#" lists forwarded connections, etc.). Are you by any chance running a program that behaves this way? -- Fran -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/