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From: Brooks Moses <bmoses AT stanford DOT edu>
Subject:  Re: cygwin forgets CTRL key press
Date:  Fri, 16 Sep 2005 00:05:23 -0700
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Luke Kendall 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.

FWIW, I just checked on my system (Windows 2003 Server, sticky-keys 
off), and can't reproduce it, even using times far longer than 4 
seconds.  (I also can't reproduce Igor's claim that Windows will offer 
to turn on sticky-keys if I hold down a modifier key too long.)

Have you confirmed that this is only happening with Cygwin, and not with 
things like Notepad?

- Brooks


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