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Re: Shell CAPS-lock settings
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Subject: Re: Shell CAPS-lock settings
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>
- Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2001 19:24:10 -0400
- References: <20010815175836.B16186@redhat.com> <000d01c125f0$31594fc0$6401a8c0@atl.mediaone.net>
- Reply-To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
Still wondering if anyone has managed to fix this...
cgf
On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 09:10:01PM -0400, David Carter wrote:
>I can confirm that I'm experiencing this on ME, but not on 2K.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com
>[mailto:cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com] On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor
>Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 5:59 PM
>To: cygwin@cygwin.com
>Subject: Re: Shell CAPS-lock settings
>
>On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 11:52:52PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>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.
>
>I reproduced it on 98 and 95.
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