Console used as a WSL terminal has garbled screen on paging

[nicferrier]

The console as a WSL terminal looks broken in the latest builds; I'm on Windows Insider and have build:

17692.red_prerelease.180609.1317

ver output shows:

Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.17692.1000]

Steps to recreate:

• open a bash terminal, say, ubuntu 16 or 18

• view a file, eg:

  view .bashrc
  

• cursor down a page of lines, so the terminal has to scroll

• see the screen garble and all the lines get compressed to the bottom line

  TERM reports xterm-256color
  

View is just one way to validate, I haven't been able to narrow it down but many things that do sophisticated screen are failing.

• ls -l works
• htop works
• less -r works
• emacs -nw works
• view doesn't work
• vi doesn't work
• vi doesn't work in a remote ssh from the terminal
• tmux doesn't work

Steps to test tmux:

• apt-get install tmux
• tmux new-session
• ls -la
• see the results are garbled at the bottom line

I'm not sure when this broke as I haven't used it that much in the past week.

Any help?

[JoBrad]

This is also happening for me, on Windows 10 build 17692. . I've posted a video of the behavior I'm seeing here: https://imgur.com/a/24bMNoc.

[mkarpoff]

It is still an issue in Windows 10 build 17704

[nicferrier]

Actually I'm pretty sure this is not limited to a WSL shell. It's happening with a standard CMD console as well.

[nicferrier]

No response though. :-(

[alecacco]

Byt hey they fixed Ctrl+s shortcut in notepad! :D Il giorno dom 1 lug 2018 alle ore 13:00 Nic Ferrier < notifications@github.com> ha scritto:

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[miniksa]

This is MSFT:17807270. It just hit the main branch in 17709 and should be fixed in Insiders shortly.

Sorry, we have several people on vacation the last few weeks and scrubbing GitHub has been a lower priority while we're low on people.

[JoBrad]

@miniksa Thanks for the follow-up! Appreciate it!

[nicferrier]

Yeah. I was trying not to be snarky. I didn't feel snarky. Y'all doing an impressive job of moving this stuff that hasn't moved for years.

[nicferrier]

Yep. That fixed it. Thanks!