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Re: mintty shell gets frequent "8~" strings inserted into input
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 15:19:58 -0500
- Subject: Re: mintty shell gets frequent "8~" strings inserted into input
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On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 07:57:46PM +0000, KARR, DAVID wrote:
>> On Friday, January 24, 2014 11:35 AM, Larry Hall wrote:
>>>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.
Wow, I agree with Larry that we've seen this before and I thought it
was a virus checker but I can't find a search term for this either.
I searched for "site:cygwin.com mintty" for the last three months but...
nuthin.
Could you try turning off your virus check to see if that helps?
cgf
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