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Re: zsh-4.1.1-2 still seems broken under Cygwin-1.5.7-1 .
* Peter A. Castro (2004-02-12 08:03 +0100)
> On Wed, 11 Feb 2004, Morris Siegel wrote:
>> My PC is running under Windows XP Professional, and until recently with
>> Cygwin-1.5.5-1 and zsh-4.1.1-1 . I upgraded to Cygwin-1.5.6-1, installing
>> everything available, in particular including zsh-4.1.1-2 . zsh behaved in
>> a buggy fashion. I reported it; you kindly replied that similarly problems
>> had been reported by others, and that Cygwin-1.5.7-1 should fix matters. I
>> upgraded to that, and the behavior is improved, but still buggy: (1)
>> sometimes when I start zsh it hangs, sometimes it starts normally; (2) zsh
>> command-line editing generally badly messes up the display when long command
>> lines are being edited. I seem to recall that problem (2) was a consistent
>> nuisance a while back, but then some new Cygwin release (I don't remember
>> which) fixed it. (I generally run zsh under screen, by the way.)
>
> cgf said in earlier email that this has been fixed in CVS and will be
> pushed into the next release. For the moment, if you really need zsh
> (like me :), downgrade to 1.5.5 and wait for the update to appear.
No, use the new snapshot 1.58s.
Thorsten
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