On 11/15/2010 1:39 PM, Patches Houlihan wrote: > Browsing through the command history in cygwin's cmd.exe access to the > Windows shell doesn't work properly in mintty. Instead of showing > previous commands, the up and down keys just move a cursor on the > screen. Using up/down works fine with bash on mintty and cmd.exe > works fine in the standard Windows console Cygwin terminal.
It's a well-known problem: Cygwin pseudo-terminals look like pipes to Windows, so cmd thinks it's being run non-interactively. You have two solutions: 1) Use the "conin wrapper" around cmd to give the program a real terminal, or 2) Better yet, use "rlwrap cmd" so you get nice readline-based line editing and persistent history with cmd. (I still need to get around to packaging a newer version of rlwrap, but the current one should work fine for this purpose.) -- 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
