Re: [1.7] bash loop and mintty hung issue

["Mark J. Reed" <markjreed at gmail dot com>]

Escape in vi mode just takes you into edit mode; [ is the first
character in any of a bunch of "go to the start of some group"
sequences, but 2 isn't a valid continuation of any of those, so it has
no effect and the 24 is entered as a repeat count. ; searches forward
on the line for the last character looked for with the (f)ind command.

And that's the problem - you can reproduce it by just hitting Esc and
then semicolon.  If you've previously entered any (f)ind command, it's
fine, but if you haven't, it locks up; someone missed a degenerate
case in the last readline update.


On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 4:48 AM, Andy Koppe wrote:
> 2009/8/2 ERIC HO:
>> Hi Andy, FYI. I have tested Âout on my Linux machine running bash 3.2.48 (instead of 3.2.49 as on cygwin). I don't have this problem with bash undxterm with set -o vi and pressing shift PF key. Does this problem happen to you with set -o vi and pressing shift PF key when using mintty in cygwin?
>
> Yep, both in mintty and xterm. And actually I can reproduce it in the
> Cygwin console too, by entering the offending keycode manually. After
> pressing 'Escape [ 2 4', the prompt looks like this:
>
> (arg: 24)
>
> Pressing ';' at this point causes bash to hang.
>
> The issue only shows up on Cygwin 1.7, not 1.5. Since their bash
> versions are almost identical, I'd suspect it's to do with the newer
> readline on 1.7.
>
> Andy
>
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