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From: "KARR, DAVID" <dk068x AT att DOT com>
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Subject: RE: mintty shell gets frequent "8~" strings inserted into input
Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2014 02:40:11 +0000
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> -----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.


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