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Subject:	Re: mintty: Doesn't know about CTRL key
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> Corinna Vinschen:
>> I'm more and more using mintty for everything (shell, admin shell,
>> heating my food, you name it).
>
> Food as well? It was only meant to make mint tea. Thanks for the endorsem=
ent. :)
>
>
>> Consider you have more than one mintty window open. =C2=A0A typical use =
case
>> for me is to have one shell open under UAC and the other one with admin
>> rights to test to test something. =C2=A0Then I want to close both ttys a=
nd
>> test again with another Cygwin DLL.
>>
>> So I press Ctrl-D twice, without lifting my thumb from the Ctrl key.
>>
>> The first mintty window closes just fine. =C2=A0The second mintty window=
 does
>> not close. =C2=A0Instead, it behaves as if I had pressed the 'd' key alo=
ne.
>> So I have to BS and then press Ctrl-D again to exit the second shell.
>>
>> Apparently the second mintty window doesn't recognize the fact that the
>> Ctrl key is still pressed. =C2=A0This does not happen with two console
>> windows, neither in tty, nor in notty mode.
>
> Phew, not quite as bad as the title suggested.
>
> This will be due to the hack for telling AltGrrrr from Ctrl+AltGr
> (which is needed because Windows sends AltGr keypresses as
> simultaneous Ctrl and Alt key events). Hopefully I'll find a way to
> fix this without breaking something else again.

ps: One workaround is to use Alt-F4 instead of Ctrl-D.

Andy

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