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Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2009 21:31:26 +0000
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Subject: Re: Problem with RightAlt key in mintty
From: Andy Koppe <andy DOT koppe AT gmail DOT com>
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2009/12/24 Andy Koppe:
> 2009/12/24 Ken Brown:
>> In the latest mintty (0.5.5-1), RightAlt plus f (or b) doesn't move the
>> cursor one word forward (or backward) when editing the command line. The
>> LeftAlt key still works as expected.
>
> Confirmed. As a workaround, switch on the Ctrl+LeftAlt is AltGr option
> on the Keyboard page. I don't yet know why that affects right Alt on
> US keyboards.

Fixed on svn. I'd wrongly assumed that RightAlt is AltGr when the
'Ctrl+LeftAlt is AltGr' option is on. This bug was exposed by fixing
the interpretation of that option in 0.5.5, which was applied the
wrong way round previously.

Andy

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