On Apr 16 19:15, Andy Koppe wrote: > > Corinna Vinschen: > >> I'm more and more using mintty for everything (shell, admin shell, > >> heating my food, you name it). > > > > Food as well? It was only meant to make mint tea. Thanks for the > > endorsement. :)
Oh, hey, I didn't see the mint tea extension yet. I'm drinking coffee most of the time. > >> 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. > > > > Phew, not quite as bad as the title suggested. > > > > This will be due to the hack for telling AltGrrrr from Ctrl+AltGr > > (which is needed because Windows sends AltGr keypresses as > > simultaneous Ctrl and Alt key events). Hopefully I'll find a way to > > fix this without breaking something else again. That would be cool. > ps: One workaround is to use Alt-F4 instead of Ctrl-D. This not so much. Do you realize how 25 years of Ctrl-D gets imprinted into your brain? I have a Ctrl-D tattoo on my cerebral cortex... Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
