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Re:Gow – The lightweight alternative to Cygwin by Jare on Saturday November 08, 2014 @05:32PM (#8578342)
I use Mintty because Cygwin's tmux didn't work with ConEmu or Cmder, but Mintty was ok.

FWIW, I took a quick stab at the tmux & ncurses code to try to find a fix, but it was far from obvious. Maximus (ConEmu author) said it had to do with how cygwin flags stdin streams, which just happens to break when ConEmu provides them. (sorry details vague)

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Re:Gow – The lightweight alternative to Cygwin by quotemstr on Sunday November 09, 2014 @06:16AM (#8579642)
Quickly scanning the code, it looks like ConEmu is using hooking to implement the Win32 console API and forward calls to the terminal emulator. That's a good approach, but it needs to be integrated into the Cygwin pty system to really work well in that environment.
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