[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.7.4

Sun Feb 5 18:36:00 GMT 2017

Hi Achim,
Am 04.02.2017 um 17:13 schrieb Achim Gratz:
> Thomas Wolff writes:
>> I have uploaded mintty 2.7.4 with the following changes:
> Since about November/December last year I'm having problems with screen
> and tmux sessions in mintty not correctly refreshing and leaving garbage
> characters displayed in the terminal. It seems that the terminal size
> is not always correctly reported, especially if you make the window
> occupy the left or right half of the screen via Windows shortcut.
Is this within tmux or after leaving tmux (see comment below)? It would 
be help to cross-test this; if it's mintty, which version would show the 
behaviour first? What happens in xterm?
> Additionally, there seems to be an off-by-one bug when the last line of
> the terminal needs to be scrolled up in order to show content that is
> longer than the remaining width. This happens when you for instance
> recall a long command from history. It's hard to see what exactoly
> happens, but it looks like the one character too many gets printed (and
> wraps onto the next line) before the whole terminal window gest scrolled
> up and the rest of the command gets printed in the line below the
> single wrapped character. That remainder is in various states of
> disarray, showing both remnants from the original prompt on the last
> line (now three lines up), empty /spaces where there should have been
> characters from the command and then of course parts of the command.
This might be related to some issue with terminal geometry as perceived 
by the shell (see 
https://github.com/mintty/mintty/issues/377#issuecomment-137728631). 
Have you checked that? Recently changed your prompt? Try with basic 
prompt (PS1="\w> ") please.
------
Thomas
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