Fw: When scrolling through history in cygwin terminal window line gets garbled

Csaba Raduly rcsaba@gmail.com
Mon Aug 20 16:47:00 GMT 2018


On Sun, Aug 19, 2018 at 6:31 PM, Andrey Repin  wrote:
> Greetings, Thomas Wolff!
>
>>> I can confirm this behavior.
>> How did you reproduce it? I don't.
>
> Exactly as described.
> Start Cygwin using cygwin.bat
> Enter command
> echo ABCDEF ABCDEF ABCDEF ABCDEF
> Enter command
> echo 6789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789
> Tap twice to pull the first entered command from history.
> Observe part of the second command remaining on the screen.

I couldn't reproduce this, neither with mintty, nor with cygwin.bat
(bash --login -i)
In both cases, the

Windows 7.

$ uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-6.1 assos 2.10.0(0.325/5/3) 2018-02-02 15:16 x86_64 Cygwin

Then I ran Cygwin update, and this happened:

https://imgur.com/FALke6H


Csaba
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