On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 09:46:51PM +0200, Thomas Wolff wrote: >When input is typed-ahead, on a Unix or Linux systems it will be >buffered and used as soon as an application looks for it. Try this: >- Run a slow command (e.g. sleep 5) >- Type "abc" while running >On Linux, "abc" will be echoed on the screen (disturbing output if there >is any). After the command terminates, the shell will look for input, >find "abc" and redisplay it properly on the command line. > >In the cygwin console, "abc" remains invisible while the command is >running, but it is redisplayed afterwards. >In mintty, "abc" is echoed while typed-ahead, but is *not* read and >echoed by the shell after the command terminates. Only after you then >type another character, the whole command line is refreshed.
Yes. The console is a windows device and that's the way that Windows works. Doing it anyway else would mean keeping a separate thread in Cygwin and essentially adding back CYGWIN=tty, which we're obviously not going to do. cgf -- 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
