Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT sources DOT redhat DOT com>
List-Archive: <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com>
List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT sources DOT redhat DOT com>, <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/#faqs>
Sender: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com
Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com
From: Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 15:41:48 -0400
To: cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com
Subject: Re: Case-Sensitive Meta-Key Input
Message-ID: <20000926154148.A5247@cygnus.com>
Reply-To: cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com
References: <p04330105b5f6a4c0b96a@[192.168.0.121]>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.6i
In-Reply-To: <p04330105b5f6a4c0b96a@[192.168.0.121]>; from rschulz@teknowledge.com on Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 12:22:18PM -0700

On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 12:22:18PM -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I've noticed that some of my Vim mappings that use Meta-Key (in the 
>ESC-prefixed form) in combination with an upper-case letter are not 
>working. Apparently, if the shift key is down when I type 
>ALT-<someAlphaKey> the sequence read by the application always 
>contains a lower-case letter--in other words, the shift key's state 
>is ignored in generating the ESC- sequence.
>
>I've attached the obligatory "cygcheck -s -r -v" output as a plain text file.
>
>Is there a way to achieve case-sensitive Meta/ALT input that I'm 
>unaware of? Is there a reason why it's difficult to accomplish under 
>Cygwin? Is it just an oversight? A bug?

The code which deals with this is in fhandler_console.cc.

cgf

--
Want to unsubscribe from this list?
Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com