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Date:	Wed, 15 Aug 2001 17:16:29 -0400
From:	Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject:	Re: Shell CAPS-lock settings
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In-Reply-To:	<200108151637.KAA18424@harvey.et.byu.edu>; from floresdv@et.byu.edu on Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 10:37:57AM -0600

On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 10:37:57AM -0600, Daniel V. Flores wrote:
>PROBLEM:
>Whenever I have my CAPS locked, the top-row keys return the character
>as if I also had the Shift key pressed.  For example, I get * instead
>of 8, + instead of =, and the ESC key doesn't work.  Imagine writing
>FORTRAN code using vim with this problem :)
>
>How can I make my shell to change this behavior to the standard one?

This seems to be a valid bug.

Anyone want to investigate this?  Several people have modified the
code in fhandler_console.cc.  It's not that hard.

cgf

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