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Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 23:52:52 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Shell CAPS-lock settings
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In-Reply-To: <20010815171629.A29104@redhat.com>; from cgf@redhat.com on Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 05:16:29PM -0400

On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 05:16:29PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 10:37:57AM -0600, Daniel V. Flores wrote:
> >PROBLEM:
> >Whenever I have my CAPS locked, the top-row keys return the character
> >as if I also had the Shift key pressed.  For example, I get * instead
> >of 8, + instead of =, and the ESC key doesn't work.  Imagine writing
> >FORTRAN code using vim with this problem :)
> >
> >How can I make my shell to change this behavior to the standard one?
> 
> This seems to be a valid bug.
> 
> Anyone want to investigate this?  Several people have modified the
> code in fhandler_console.cc.  It's not that hard.

Is that 9x/ME? I can't reproduce it on W2K, neither with CYGWIN=tty
nor with notty regardless whether I use bash or tcsh.

Corinna

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