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On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 12:14:07AM -0400, 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.
>
>Has anyone else seen this?
>
>It happens regardless of the terminal type.  It happens whether I use
>rxvt or in the Win XP command window screen.
>
>Very strange indeed.
>
>$ uname -a
>CYGWIN_NT-5.1 myhost 1.5.25(0.156/4/2) 2008-06-12 19:34 i686 Cygwin

I'd suspect CRLF line endings in your .inputrc file.  Either that
or non-inputrc stuff in that file.

cgf

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