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Re: Redirecting cat and paste to file gives garbage
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2013 19:32:50 +0200
- Subject: Re: Redirecting cat and paste to file gives garbage
- References: <5203A1A3 dot 30200 at cs dot utoronto dot ca> <20130808153250 dot GN16868 at calimero dot vinschen dot de> <20130808154842 dot GQ16868 at calimero dot vinschen dot de> <5203C238 dot 6010809 at cs dot utoronto dot ca>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Aug 8 12:07, Ryan Johnson wrote:
> On 08/08/2013 11:48 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >On Aug 8 17:32, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >>On Aug 8 09:48, Ryan Johnson wrote:
> >>>Hi all,
> >>>
> >>>(no, that's not a typo in the subject line)
> >>>
> >>>64-bit install, bash inside mintty, all latest packages with the
> >>>cygwin1.dll snapshot shown below...
> >>>
> >>># <<< --- begin STC --->>>
> >>>$ uname -a
> >>>CYGWIN_NT-6.1 ryan-laptop-v02 1.7.23s(0.268/5/3) 20130729 19:11:42
> >>>x86_64 Cygwin
> >>>
> >>>$ echo "Reading" > /dev/clipboard
> >>>
> >>># hit [shift]+[insert] to paste
> >>># (hopefully 8 characters is not "too long" to paste into a TTY)
> >>># then hit ^D to finish
> >>>$ cat > tmp.txt
> >>>
> >>>$ cat tmp.txt
> >>>Rg
> >>>eRaedaidnign
> >>>g
> >>The only idea I have is this. The clipboard data is stored as
> >>CF_UNICODETEXT and as the Cygwin-private CYGWIN_NATIVE_CLIPBOARD format.
> >>How's shift-insert implemented in mintty? If it reads the CF_UNICODETEXT
> >>part and sends it to the pty unchanged, that could explain
> >>this behaviour.
> >The pty already gets 16 chars. And pasting the text into CMD or, FWIW,
> >any Windows console window works as expected. So this looks like a
> >mintty bug right now.
> That's what I thought at first, too, but it pastes fine directly
> into the terminal... and then I had a brain cramp and didn't add
> that to the STC:
>
> $ echo reading > /dev/clipboard
> # press [shift]+[insert] here...
> $ echo
> reading
>
> Still a mintty bug?
Dunno, really. Somebody would have to debug this.
Corinna
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