Ok, now I've discovered, that it must be something in my .inputrc file:
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# Be 8 bit clean. set meta-flag on set input-meta on set output-meta on set convert-meta off
# for linux console and Debian xterm "\e[1~": beginning-of-line "\e[4~": end-of-line "\e[5~": beginning-of-history "\e[6~": end-of-history "\e[3~": delete-char "\e[2~": quoted-insert "\e[5C": forward-word "\e[5D": backward-word "\e\e[C": forward-word "\e\e[D": backward-word
# for non Debian xterm "\eOH": beginning-of-line "\eOF": end-of-line
# for freebsd console "\e[H": beginning-of-line "\e[F": end-of-line
# kvt "\e[H":beginning-of-line "\e[F":end-of-line
# rxvt and konsole (i.e. the KDE-app...) "\e[7~":beginning-of-line "\e[8~":end-of-line
export TERM=xterm-color export LC_CTYPE=ISO-8859-1
# Mapping for German umlauts "\M-a": "ä" "\M-A": "Ä" "\M-o": "ö" "\M-O": "Ö" "\M-u": "ü" "\M-U": "Ü" "\M-s": "ß"
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Which line tells Cygwin to wipe out my 'e' ? Rado
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