> -----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. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
