From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8989 invoked by alias); 19 Aug 2018 21:04:15 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 8977 invoked by uid 89); 19 Aug 2018 21:04:14 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=0.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=exe, powershellexe, commenting, shexe X-HELO: mail-it0-f42.google.com Received: from mail-it0-f42.google.com (HELO mail-it0-f42.google.com) (209.85.214.42) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Sun, 19 Aug 2018 21:04:13 +0000 Received: by mail-it0-f42.google.com with SMTP id h20-v6so18049505itf.2 for ; Sun, 19 Aug 2018 14:04:13 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=subject:to:references:from:openpgp:autocrypt:message-id:date :user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-language :content-transfer-encoding; bh=KbcT2akwhqilMhSgKsTWZuvCvRNZLFBc9Q56cfI3G5o=; b=PDWhDPDJWfcnSML/3q4EglfAIecq0P/hsmaGOyPx/easwKC5yrMfFQwvW9skQEsbXu USBuIGwRSV9TvM/0Zagl/SJTntYGSkMW+yfh6LwBG1tDaJV4bCEpWLUKoaQOIlxToo0r nbN2fjLiJ3uGUDemjuWQM7zDYbnkAUI3Sfq11MwD40P90V01e3sh772swogb2wT8CpIk hE8xLl6kN8Fs12Lf4l7wky0G20gawRPTCTMHktbpZCJTFaGBfa2ZrNLo6rceHtN+v+w5 IosWPqQXxrUUhR2JZfh4wTeUC6ouhf8q/JfJtmlX3Uexr3FebTfipadHJVKP+mux1eaF hqmw== Return-Path: Received: from [192.168.0.16] ([69.47.131.109]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id r17-v6sm2746715ioh.27.2018.08.19.14.04.10 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Sun, 19 Aug 2018 14:04:11 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: scrolling through history in cygwin terminal window line gets garbled To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <11d1a315-7669-4721-2d04-c6ca9f5c8c58@gmail.com> <5b78c794.1c69fb81.17997.b018@mx.google.com> From: cyg Simple Openpgp: preference=signencrypt Message-ID: <1d51c005-37c0-1ca1-301c-5c65381bb3b9@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2018 14:40:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.9.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <5b78c794.1c69fb81.17997.b018@mx.google.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2018-08/txt/msg00268.txt.bz2 On 8/18/2018 9:27 PM, Steven Penny wrote: > On Sat, 18 Aug 2018 20:47:31, cyg Simple wrote: >> You should give that a try.  You can start with conhost and get a cmd >> session. > > it appears we have reached the bounds of your knowledge. trying to launch > conhost.exe on its own is a noop. Maybe for you but not for me. > if you double click the EXE, or you > call it > from the run box, it will not show up in the task manager. if you ARE > seeing it, > its because you have launched one of these: > > - cmd.exe > - powershell.exe > - sh.exe > > and *it* has called conhost.exe. perhaps you should actually try this > before > commenting further. > No for me, again Win10, executing or clicking from File Explorer the conhost.exe program will open a cmd.exe window. -- cyg Simple -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple