mintty shell gets frequent "8~" strings inserted into input
Larry Hall (Cygwin)
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Fri Jan 24 20:14:00 GMT 2014
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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Larry
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