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Re: Possible ZSH bug involving piping ls to less (MSYS2 & Cygwin)

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From: Jun T <takimoto-j@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: zsh-workers@xxxxxxx
Cc: Alexandros Kozak <agkozak@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Possible ZSH bug involving piping ls to less (MSYS2 & Cygwin)
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2021 10:49:59 +0900
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> 2021/01/19 4:08, agkozak@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> Using zsh v5.8 on both MSYS2 and Cygwin and a plain vanilla shell (no
> dotfiles):
> 
> If I run
> 
>    ls --color | less -R
> 
> frequently I get
> 
>    zsh: done                    ls --color |
>    zsh: suspended (tty output)  less -R
> 
> On rare occasions I can get this to happen with a simple
> 
>    ls | less
> 
> but using the --color option seems to make it happen considerably more
> often. It happens quite frequently on MSYS2; it is harder to reproduce on
> Cygwin, but it does happen.

Yes, it happens quite frequently on MSYS2.

Has this been happening for a long time, or started to happen rather recently?
(my experience on MSYS2 is quite limited)

References:
- Possible ZSH bug involving piping ls to less (MSYS2 & Cygwin)
  - From: agkozak

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