Sorry, I tend to forget my experiences while working on Windows rather quickly - and, it's been a few months... My usual mode of working within cygwin was to immediately start up X with an xterm, which definitely doesn't have a quick-edit mode and therefore doesn't display that behavior. Having left that out of my earlier statement makes it misleading, so apologies.

s**lil*;  $*=join'',sort split q**;  s;.*;grr; &&s+(.(.)).+$2$1+; $; =
qq-$_-;s,.*,ahc,;$,.=chop for split q,,,reverse;print for($,,$;,$*,$/)
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