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Subject: Re: mintty will not accept the letter "e"
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2020 19:09:03 -0600
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To: Thomas Wolff <towo@towo.net>
From: Ken Reek via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com>
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Other apps are fine (like notepad) and I have swapped keyboards with no improvement. Bizarre! I forgot to mention that it won’t take an “e” even in a paste operation.

- Ken

> On Aug 29, 2020, at 5:05 PM, Thomas Wolff <towo@towo.net> wrote:
> 
> ﻿Am 30.08.2020 um 00:42 schrieb Ken Reek via Cygwin:
>> Hi, all.
>> 
>> All of the sudden, mintty won't accept a lower case "e" -- it just dings
>> when I try to type one. Upper case "E" is fine, as are all the other
>> letters. I'm no mintty expert, but I think the e key might have been
>> remapped somehow.
>> 
>> Any ideas on how I can fix this? I've killed mintty and started it again,
>> and also rebooted my machine, to no avail. I'm on Windows 10. Thanks for any
>> help!
> What a strange report - there is no way mintty could be causing such an effect. Maybe you've somehow changed your keyboard mapping? What about other letters? Other applications? Windows cmd console?
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