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From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: mintty: Doesn't know about CTRL key
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On Apr 17 06:20, Andy Koppe wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > Consider you have more than one mintty window open.  A typical use case
> > for me is to have one shell open under UAC and the other one with admin
> > rights to test to test something.  Then I want to close both ttys and
> > test again with another Cygwin DLL.
> >
> > So I press Ctrl-D twice, without lifting my thumb from the Ctrl key.
> > The first mintty window closes just fine.  The second mintty window does
> > not close.  Instead, it behaves as if I had pressed the 'd' key alone.
> > So I have to BS and then press Ctrl-D again to exit the second shell.
> >
> > Apparently the second mintty window doesn't recognize the fact that the
> > Ctrl key is still pressed.  This does not happen with two console
> > windows, neither in tty, nor in notty mode.
> 
> Fixed in svn. If you want to give it a try:
> 
> svn checkout http://mintty.googlecode.com/svn/branches/0.6 mintty-0.6
> cd mintty-0.6
> make

Much better.  Thank you!


Corinna

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