Re: VS Code is missing a few characters when running launch task in Git Bash

[Takashi Yano <takashi.yano@nifty.ne.jp>]

On Fri, 27 May 2022 15:22:23 +0300
Orgad Shaneh wrote:
> On Fri, May 27, 2022 at 11:06 AM Orgad Shaneh <orgads@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, May 27, 2022 at 10:59 AM Adam Dinwoodie <adam@dinwoodie.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Fri, May 27, 2022 at 10:15:18AM +0300, Orgad Shaneh wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I'm using Git Bash as the default terminal in VS Code. Using Git for
> > > > Windows 2.36.1 with the latest runtime, based on cygwin 3.5.0.

Do you mean cygwin 3.3.5?

> > >
> > > Hi Orgad,
> > >
> > > Git for Windows and Git Bash are based in part on Cygwin, but they're
> > > downstream projects that aren't supported by the Cygwin mailing list:
> > > the Git for Windows folks have made changes to the Cygwin code for their
> > > use case, which they're 100% welcome to do, but which mean the folk on
> > > the Cygwin mailing list just don't have the knowledge or experience to
> > > help.
> > >
> > > If you can show problems with Cygwin, be that with the Cygwin DLL,
> > > Cygwin's Bash or Cygwin's Git, the Cygwin mailing lists are definitely
> > > the right place to ask for help.  But unless you can demonstrate the
> > > problem using Cygwin packages without any downstream modifications, this
> > > list isn't going to be able to help you.
> > >
> > > Based on https://gitforwindows.org/ I suspect your best bet for getting
> > > help here is either (a) asking on the Git for Windows mailing list at
> > > https://groups.google.com/g/git-for-windows, or (b) raising an issue at
> > > https://github.com/git-for-windows/git.
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Thank you.
> >
> > I reported several issues related to type-ahead (all of them happened
> > in MSYS, and some of them were not reproducible in cygwin), and they
> > were identified and fixed by @Takashi Yano in cygwin runtime.
> >
> > Some issues are hard to reproduce, and I can't always reproduce them
> > on cygwin, but that doesn't mean the root cause is in MSYS patches.
> >
> > Anyway, I'll try to reproduce with cygwin and report back.
> 
> It doesn't reproduce with Cygwin. I'll report on git-for-windows, but
> like I said, I doubt this relates to MSYS changes.

Two questions:
1) Is the terminal in VS Code runs on console or pty? (What does
  'tty' command says?)
2) If the terminal runs on pty, did you try both with and without
  'disable_pcon'?

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Takashi Yano <takashi.yano@nifty.ne.jp>