Hi,
Since Cygwin 3.1's pseudo console support was introduced I've run into
lots of issues with non-cygwin programs.
1) Mangled output: See screenshot [1].
As you can see, at what it seems random places, the output is broken.
The above can easily be reproduced using Apache Maven in any project,
e.g. using a sample project created using [2].
2) Terminal width: For some reason, non-native programs do not use the
full width of the terminal (Mintty and TERM=xterm-256color). Can also
be seen in [1] (blue highlight) and reproduced e.g. using Maven with
a relatively small window.
3) Typed characters while non-cygwin program is running are lost.
Usually, when typing characters while a native program executes,
which does *not* read from standard input, after the program exits,
all these typed characters are put into the prompt.
When executing a non-native program, such as, again, "mvn clean",
which does not read from stdin, typed characters are completely lost.
This is very frustrating, since I am often quicker at tying the
next command, while the previous command is still doing something.
4) Importance of TERM: When connecting to my Cygwin installation using
SSH using Putty, TERM=putty-256color is set. When executing non-
native program from that session using that TERM, output is broken
even worse than in 1), and also keybindings are broken. I need to
force TERM=xterm-256color for those invocations.
Shouldn't this be handled transparently and enforced automatically by
the pcon code?
Note 1: This is tested using the latest Snapshot 2020-01-31 18:10:26 UTC
from https://cygwin.com/snapshots/.
Note 2: It seems that the problems can be solved by setting
CYGWIN=disable_pcon but it feels like there is some bug in the
PTY code (not in the non-native program being called).
[1] https://images2.imgbox.com/dc/2d/MQwSH9S4_o.png
[2]
http://maven.apache.org/guides/getting-started/index.html#How_do_I_make_my_first_Maven_project
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