On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 03:01:44PM +0200, Olivier Lefevre wrote: >I was hoping we would not be playing ye olde finger-pointing >game. It used to work and it no longer does yet the interpreter >has not changed. How could it not be an issue within Cygwin? > >I am not asking to take responsibility for non-Cygwin executables >but to offer a hint as to what could possibly cause this failure.
The only thing that I can think of that a new version of readline/terminfo/ncurses could effect is the default mode of the the console, if you are using a standard windows console. Maybe the console isn't being reset to "cooked" mode. Have you tried holding down the shift keys when using the arrow key to recall previous commands? 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