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Ned Ludd wrote:

> I have a strange issue.  The letter "e" magically disappears in my
> cygwin bash terminal.
>
> If I type "e", and only the "e", at the prompt, nothing appears until
> I type the next character.
>
> If I type "eeeeee", only the first one "hides".  The others appear normally.

This seems similar to the behavior when you are SSH'ed into a remote
host and you type a command that starts with '~' (the SSH escape
character).  Until the SSH client sees the next character it doesn't
know whether to process the '~' as a normal input character or to
handle a special local command (e.g. "~." disconnects, "~#" lists
forwarded connections, etc.).

Are you by any chance running a program that behaves this way?
--
Fran


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