mintty shell gets frequent "8~" strings inserted into input

Larry Hall (Cygwin) reply-to-list-only-lh@cygwin.com
Sat Jan 25 22:28:00 GMT 2014


On 1/24/2014 9:40 PM, KARR, DAVID wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> Larry Hall (Cygwin)
>> Sent: Friday, January 24, 2014 12:14 PM
>> Subject: Re: mintty shell gets frequent "8~" strings inserted into input
>>
>> 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>
>
> I don't know where the subject of virus scanners comes in here. I simply
> added the suggested line to ~/.inputrc and it seemed to resolve the
> problem.  I'm not quite certain what it did, but I do know it fixed my
> current problem.

The thread actually mentions some software to disable screen-savers.  This
is apparently what my poor memory filtered out and substituted virus
scanners for.

Since this seems to be a common bash problem, I wonder if it makes sense
to add the "\e[" sequence to the skeleton .inputrc file to avoid this issue
at least on new installs.  David, would you be willing to add it?

-- 
Larry

_____________________________________________________________________

A: Yes.
 > Q: Are you sure?
 >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
 >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email?

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