On 10/24/20 9:35 PM, Brian Inglis wrote:
On 2020-10-24 13:11, Federico Kircheis via Cygwin wrote:
On 10/24/20 8:10 PM, Brian Inglis wrote:
On 2020-10-24 09:04, Federico Kircheis via Cygwin wrote:
I've lately updated Windows to the latest version, and cygwin too (I had
something previous to 3.0).
I've read that interaction with non-cygwin programs should be better because of
the console-helper.
But in my daily usage the integration is worse, programs like tmux or even less
seems to have more issues than before.
For example
/cygdrive/c/Program\ Files/TortoiseSVN/bin/svn log | less
used to work correctly.
Currently if I press arrow down or up less does not scroll up or down anymore
and "ESC[" appears briefly at the top-left of the console.
Of course i could install subversion inside cygwin, as
svn log | less
works without issues, but it's just an example.
git, adb, and other programs trigger the same behavior.
Also less is not the only program, tmux for example has similar issues.
I believe the underlying issue is console-helper but I'm not sure how I could
test it, as I did, for example, not find how I could disable it, or if the issue
is already known.
I'm able to reproduce the issue on a clean machine, so it should not be a
configuration issue on my side.
I think setting CYGWIN=disable_pcon in your user or system environment should
disable it: search for that setting for more information.
Thank you, setting CYGWIN to disable_pcon as environment variable did the trick
with, I'll observe in the next days if all my issues are really gone.
Unfortunately it seems that it is only possible to set this variable globally,
correct?
It is not possible, for example, to set it from bash only for some processes.
AFAIK I cannot have both
/cygdrive/c/Program\ Files/TortoiseSVN/bin/svn log | less
and
/cygdrive/c/Program\ Files/Python/Python39/python
working correctly, as the first works with CYGWIN=disable_pcon and the second
not.
I doubt it, but you could try if it could work using e.g.
$ alias wpython='CYGWIN="" /cygdrive/c/Program\ Files/Python/Python39/python'
$ wpython ...
No, unfortunately it does not work...
It's a shame, but I think I'll leave pcon disabled at the moment... or
is there anything else I could try?
AFAIK pcon is relatively new, so I'm hoping that it will mature soon enough.
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