Interaction with non-cygwin programs

[Takashi Yano]

On Sat, 24 Oct 2020 17:04:59 +0200
Federico Kircheis via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:
> I've lately updated Windows to the latest version, and cygwin too (I had 
> something previous to 3.0).
> 
> I've read that interaction with non-cygwin programs should be better 
> because of the console-helper.
> 
> 
> But in my daily usage the integration is worse, programs like tmux or 
> even less seems to have more issues than before.
> 
> 
> For example
> 
>    /cygdrive/c/Program\ Files/TortoiseSVN/bin/svn log | less
> 
> used to work correctly.
> Currently if I press arrow down or up less does not scroll up or down 
> anymore and "ESC[" appears briefly at the top-left of the console.
> 
> Of course i could install subversion inside cygwin, as
> 
> svn log | less
> 
> works without issues, but it's just an example.
> git, adb, and other programs trigger the same behavior.
> 
> 
> Also less is not the only program, tmux for example has similar issues.
> 
> I believe the underlying issue is console-helper but I'm not sure how I 
> could test it, as I did, for example, not find how I could disable it, 
> or if the issue is already known.
> 
> I'm able to reproduce the issue on a clean machine, so it should not be 
> a configuration issue on my side.

Could you please try cygwin latest snapshot?
https://cygwin.com/snapshots/

-- 
Takashi Yano <takashi.yano@nifty.ne.jp>