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

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

[KARR, DAVID]

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?

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

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

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.

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 > Q: Are you sure?
 >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
 >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email?

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

[KARR, DAVID]

> -----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.


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

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

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>


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A: Yes.
 > Q: Are you sure?
 >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
 >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email?

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

[Christopher Faylor]

On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 07:57:46PM +0000, KARR, DAVID wrote:
>> On Friday, January 24, 2014 11:35 AM, Larry Hall wrote:
>>>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.

Wow, I agree with Larry that we've seen this before and I thought it
was a virus checker but I can't find a search term for this either.

I searched for "site:cygwin.com mintty" for the last three months but...
nuthin.

Could you try turning off your virus check to see if that helps?

cgf

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

[Christopher Faylor]

On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 03:19:58PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 07:57:46PM +0000, KARR, DAVID wrote:
>>> On Friday, January 24, 2014 11:35 AM, Larry Hall wrote:
>>>>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.
>
>Wow, I agree with Larry that we've seen this before and I thought it
>was a virus checker but I can't find a search term for this either.
>
>I searched for "site:cygwin.com mintty" for the last three months but...
>nuthin.
>
>Could you try turning off your virus check to see if that helps?

Sorry, I obviously missed Larry's reply.

cgf

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

[KARR, DAVID]

> -----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.


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

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

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?

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A: Yes.
 > Q: Are you sure?
 >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
 >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email?

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

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

On 1/25/2014 5:27 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
> 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?
>

Ouch!  I just realized that the David I mentioned above could be interpreted
as the OP, David Karr, instead of the base-files package maintainer,
David Sastre Medina.  I meant the latter.  Sorry for any confusion.

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A: Yes.
 > Q: Are you sure?
 >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
 >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email?

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