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Date:	Thu, 15 Sep 2005 22:22:06 -0400
To:	Luke Kendall <luke DOT kendall AT cisra DOT canon DOT com DOT au>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
From:	Larry Hall <lh-no-personal-replies-please AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject:	Re: cygwin forgets CTRL key press
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At 07:25 PM 9/15/2005, you wrote:
>Has anyone else noted that in vi (either in a plain Cygwin window or in
>an rxvt window, in an X session or not, also in xterm), that if you hold
>down the CTRL key and press keys at intervals (like F to page down
>through a file), and wait four seconds before another key press it's as
>if you don't have CTRL pressed at all?  You have to release it and press
>afresh.
>
>The same applies to "more": hold CTRL down and press f, and it beeps at
>you to indicate that's invalid; still hold CTRL down, wait 4 seconds,
>then press f again, and it pages forward.
>
>This behaviour has been present for years, BTW, it's not new.


I've never seen this and cannot reproduce it locally based on the 
procedure you described.



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