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Subject: mintty emacs-nox pseudorandom color dimming
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Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2020 13:47:32 -0700
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From: Paul Ausbeck via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com>
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Dear Sirs:

After recently updating my cygwin installation, emacs-nox now pseudorandomly dims some characters after the cursor passes through a character's position. I don't think the problem lies with emacs-nox, but rather with mintty. I say this as the color dimming happens when one is using local emacs-nox within a mintty or using remote emacs-nox after sshing within a mintty.

After I first discovered the dimming problem I noticed a separate problem with the backspace key in ssh sessions. I then noticed that there was yet another more recent mintty update, so I thought that I'd try that. After applying that update, the backspace problem resolved itself. However, the character dimming problem remains.

Regards,

Paul Ausbeck
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