mintty emacs-nox pseudorandom color dimming

mintty emacs-nox pseudorandom color dimming

[Paul Ausbeck]

Dear Sirs:

After recently updating my cygwin installation, emacs-nox now pseudorandomly dims some characters after the cursor passes through a character's position. I don't think the problem lies with emacs-nox, but rather with mintty. I say this as the color dimming happens when one is using local emacs-nox within a mintty or using remote emacs-nox after sshing within a mintty.

After I first discovered the dimming problem I noticed a separate problem with the backspace key in ssh sessions. I then noticed that there was yet another more recent mintty update, so I thought that I'd try that. After applying that update, the backspace problem resolved itself. However, the character dimming problem remains.

Regards,

Paul Ausbeck

Re: mintty emacs-nox pseudorandom color dimming

[Thomas Wolff]

Am 15.06.2020 um 22:47 schrieb Paul Ausbeck via Cygwin:
> Dear Sirs:
>
> After recently updating my cygwin installation, emacs-nox now 
> pseudorandomly dims some characters after the cursor passes through a 
> character's position. I don't think the problem lies with emacs-nox, 
> but rather with mintty. 
To support that claim you'd need to provide a clear symptom description 
and a reproducible test case.
You could make a screen log (not shot) or a reproducible command 
sequence to reveal the effect, then describe what you see and what you'd 
expect to see.
> I say this as the color dimming happens when one is using local 
> emacs-nox within a mintty or using remote emacs-nox after sshing 
> within a mintty.
>
> After I first discovered the dimming problem I noticed a separate 
> problem with the backspace key in ssh sessions. I then noticed that 
> there was yet another more recent mintty update, so I thought that I'd 
> try that. After applying that update, the backspace problem resolved 
> itself. However, the character dimming problem remains.
>
> Regards,
>
> Paul Ausbeck
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