From: Thomas Wolff <towo@towo.net>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Long lines output by a native process in the PTY have new lines at the wrap point in the terminal
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2020 16:02:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <38aa7ce3-a86e-c4df-edd2-3b559b9ece76@towo.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADbiGS6AxSV-CjSZ1+Cga-xwLmpWLKPx3d5z8DEJb6jLX+O3DA@mail.gmail.com>
Am 29.06.2020 um 15:52 schrieb Andrew Ng via Cygwin:
> Hi,
>
> If you run a native process in bash using mintty that outputs lines
> longer than the width of the terminal, these lines become "split" with
> a new line at the wrap point. This can make copying the output
> somewhat tricky, especially if the output is a command line you want
> to copy, paste and run.
>
> Can be reproduced using GnuWin32 'echo' or a native version of Python
> using print.
This has been discussed as a mintty issue
https://github.com/mintty/mintty/issues/971
It's actually a Windows ConPTY handling issue and reportedly they have a
fix already in their queue, to appear in some future Windows build...
Thomas
> I am running Cygwin 3.1.5 and mintty 3.2.0.
>
> Thank you,
> Andrew Ng
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