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Re: mintty shell gets frequent "8~" strings inserted into input


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?

--
Larry

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