X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:message-id:date:from:reply-to:mime-version:to :subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=default; b=C9odNK6fDpqzGBkK FQvGl7bI5mwqoTC1D4H45o53PbxN93qTA77axI17CLX6w0A7dhsnCXxN9+LaGbLX iNQkWhZAtPnU3ddbsG4elk7rtEvdkJitUEel34vl3TAUeLpg1tDSFveIfyPmLINQ g5W8WRhEFLKklke2SzALDGhHZhE= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:message-id:date:from:reply-to:mime-version:to :subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; s=default; bh=d7uyBPc/1a99xOWVdyG2aF UpGsQ=; b=v8gpj5PLAUcZUkrxnp+2XW4upUfKeV00bNcv3YkeaEeg9PoL4mFW1p aCwH4fjHprEPBYPio3ZVGRt9GLznVs5LjyB4rBmvtoN5poEAJuSvSwvVnk5WdD7m M6hy5MmcDVxvuEqaX8r9GAdS3fFJlfBFO3wcduizBQf3XSdEncCoQ= Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: vms173023pub.verizon.net Message-id: <52E43A6C.1030504@cygwin.com> Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2014 17:27:56 -0500 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-to: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.2.0 MIME-version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: mintty shell gets frequent "8~" strings inserted into input References: <52E2C062 DOT 1060601 AT cygwin DOT com> <52E2C979 DOT 8050406 AT cygwin DOT com> In-reply-to: Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit On 1/24/2014 9:40 PM, KARR, DAVID wrote: >> -----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: >> >> > > 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. The thread actually mentions some software to disable screen-savers. This is apparently what my poor memory filtered out and substituted virus scanners for. Since this seems to be a common bash problem, I wonder if it makes sense to add the "\e[" sequence to the skeleton .inputrc file to avoid this issue at least on new installs. David, would you be willing to add it? -- Larry _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple