On 8/18/2018 6:20 PM, Steven Penny wrote: > On Sat, 18 Aug 2018 16:17:49, cyg Simple wrote: >> I'm using Win10 and typically the icon created by setup which starts >> mintty directly as: >> >> C:\cygwin64\bin\mintty.exe -i /Cygwin-Terminal.ico - >> >> I started conhost from that session and then executed `bash -il' within >> conhost. > > i said from the beginning that i wasnt using mintty - so im not sure why > you > are testing with mintty > > also you dont start conhost - its started automatically when you launch any > shell. >
You should give that a try. You can start with conhost and get a cmd session. >> So just for grins I went to the Windows Explorer and started with the >> cygwin.bat file and performed your test again using the .bash_history >> with no issues. This time the TERM=cygwin which comes from >> /usr/share/terminfo/63/cygwin. > > all i can say to this is that you arent using windows 7, so perhaps the > newer > version of conhost has fixed the issue - at this point we would need > another > windows 7 user to confirm the issue - further tests with win 10 wont be > helpful. I agree if there are any. -- cyg Simple -- 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
