Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Reply-To: Cygwin List Message-Id: <6.2.1.2.0.20050915222057.039f5d00@pop.prospeed.net> Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 22:22:06 -0400 To: Luke Kendall , cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: Larry Hall Subject: Re: cygwin forgets CTRL key press In-Reply-To: <20050915232537.1AC9E83C98@pessard.research.canon.com.au> References: <20050915232537 DOT 1AC9E83C98 AT pessard DOT research DOT canon DOT com DOT au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 07:25 PM 9/15/2005, you wrote: >Has anyone else noted that in vi (either in a plain Cygwin window or in >an rxvt window, in an X session or not, also in xterm), that if you hold >down the CTRL key and press keys at intervals (like F to page down >through a file), and wait four seconds before another key press it's as >if you don't have CTRL pressed at all? You have to release it and press >afresh. > >The same applies to "more": hold CTRL down and press f, and it beeps at >you to indicate that's invalid; still hold CTRL down, wait 4 seconds, >then press f again, and it pages forward. > >This behaviour has been present for years, BTW, it's not new. I've never seen this and cannot reproduce it locally based on the procedure you described. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/