Re: scrolling through history in cygwin terminal window line gets garbled

[Thomas Wolff <towo@towo.net>]

Am 19.08.2018 um 00:20 schrieb Steven Penny:
> On Sat, 18 Aug 2018 16:17:49, cyg Simple wrote:
>> I'm using Win10 and typically the icon created by setup which starts
>> mintty directly as:
>>
>> C:\cygwin64\bin\mintty.exe -i /Cygwin-Terminal.ico -
>>
>> I started conhost from that session and then executed `bash -il' within
>> conhost.
>
> i said from the beginning that i wasnt using mintty - so im not sure 
> why you are testing with mintty
You put "cygwin terminal" in the mail subject; so you're in fact using a 
"cygwin console".

>
> also you dont start conhost - its started automatically when you 
> launch any shell.
>
>> So just for grins I went to the Windows Explorer and started with the
>> cygwin.bat file and performed your test again using the .bash_history
>> with no issues.  This time the TERM=cygwin which comes from
>> /usr/share/terminfo/63/cygwin.
>
> all i can say to this is that you arent using windows 7, so perhaps 
> the newer
> version of conhost has fixed the issue - at this point we would need 
> another
> windows 7 user to confirm the issue - further tests with win 10 wont 
> be helpful.
Tested with Window 7 Ultimate, starting cmd.exe, then Cygwin.bat. This 
does not reproduce the issue for me.


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