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Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1999 18:41:36 -0400
From: Chris Faylor <cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com>
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Subject: Re: Cursors do not work in bash under Win98
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In-Reply-To: <19990822183809.B1175@cygnus.com>; from Chris Faylor on Sun, Aug 22, 1999 at 06:38:09PM -0400

On Sun, Aug 22, 1999 at 06:38:09PM -0400, Chris Faylor wrote:
>On Sun, Aug 22, 1999 at 11:11:38PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>But there are more problems with keystrokes that are not specific to
>>cygwin but are nevertheless disturbing. Example vi: When I learnt
>>using vi, I learnt three commands which are very convenient:
>>
>>	Ctrl + 6	change to alternative file
>>	Ctrl + ^	ditto
>>	Ctrl + ]	goto tag under cursor
>>
>>All commands never worked with a vi under cygwin. AFAIK this is a
>>problem of native keyboards under win32. The key combinations
>>doesn't unfortunately generate any ascii characters. On the german
>>keyboard the circumflex is a dead key for national characters (though
>>not existing in german language), the brackets are only reached by
>>using the right Alt key (Alt Gr).
>
>Ok.  This one I understand.  There would probably be no problem adding
>this functionality.

Actually, I just tried ctrl-6 and ctrl-] and both "work form me".

-chris

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