mintty shell gets frequent "8~" strings inserted into input
Larry Hall (Cygwin)
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Sat Jan 25 22:30:00 GMT 2014
On 1/25/2014 5:27 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
> 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:
>>>
>>> <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.
>
> 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?
>
Ouch! I just realized that the David I mentioned above could be interpreted
as the OP, David Karr, instead of the base-files package maintainer,
David Sastre Medina. I meant the latter. Sorry for any confusion.
--
Larry
_____________________________________________________________________
A: Yes.
> Q: Are you sure?
>> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
>>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email?
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