I had the same issue and got answer from Takashi Yano https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2020-01/msg00003.html
My workareound is using version ConEmuPack.170807.7z. This works together with cygwin 3.1.2-1. Versions of Comemu greater 170807 won't. Same for cmder, if replacing conemu with version 170807. Hartmut Am 16.02.2020 um 13:22 schrieb Paul Moore: > This issue has also been reported to the ConEmu tracker as > https://github.com/Maximus5/ConEmu/issues/2059. > > If I run a cygwin command (for example ls, or for a simpler example, > "printf hello\nthere", although the latter needs care to get the > correct level of \n escaping :-)) newlines are displayed by the text > moving down a line, but *not* returning to the left hand margin. > > An example, running in Powershell as my shell: > >> E:\Utils\Cygwin64\bin\printf.exe hello\nthere > hello > there > > This behaviour is present with the latest version of cygwin1.dll, as > well as with the 20200212 snapshot. It is not present if I replace the > Cygwin dll with version 3.0.7-1. > > The problem does not appear with a standard cmd.exe terminal (standard > Windows console host) or the new Windows Terminal application. I > understand that ConEmu handles the console management differently > "behind the scenes" to present a GUI front end, but I don't know > enough about the internals to know how it does that. > > I can work around the issue by pinning to cygwin 3.0.7-1, but it's > obviously not ideal. I have been unable to find any details as to what > changed between cygwin 3.0.7-1 and the next version to help me track > down the issue any more specifically. > > There are some notes at https://conemu.github.io/en/CygwinMsys.html > that I've read, but to be honest I don't entirely understand. I did, > however, confirm that this issue doesn't occur in a standard `cmd` > window (and I added that information to the ConEmu issue report). > > Any information that would help to pin down the cause of this problem > would be very much appreciated. > > Paul > > -- > 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 > -- ------------------------------ Dr.-Ing. Hartmut Bartels dr.hartmut.bart...@gmail.com dr.hartmut.bart...@t-online.de ------------------------------ -- 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
