X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com
X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org
Message-ID: <f60fe000808260947y13534564te75adf5bf112b55f@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 12:47:55 -0400
From: "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed AT gmail DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Magic disappearing "e"
In-Reply-To: <uod3flpni.fsf@gmail.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Disposition: inline
References: <65a36ed50808252114l45ba2411n68cd4143bd1df21a AT mail DOT gmail DOT com> 	 <uod3flpni DOT fsf AT gmail DOT com>
X-IsSubscribed: yes
Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
Precedence: bulk
List-Id: <cygwin.cygwin.com>
List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:cygwin-unsubscribe-archive-cygwin=delorie DOT com AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive: <http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sourceware.org/ml/#faqs>
Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com

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.

-- 
Mark J. Reed

--
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/