Here's a fix to squirrel away; using the alt key and pressing the number pad keys (while holding the alt key) you can enter a ascii character for example: ALT 101 https://www.alt-codes.net/
________________________________ From: cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com <cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com> on behalf of Dominic Bragge <d...@benelec.com.au> Sent: Tuesday, August 6, 2019 4:27 AM To: cygwin@cygwin.com <cygwin@cygwin.com> Subject: RE: Sudden loss of "e" key in cygwin only - Fixed FYI It seems a minor change (two Echo statements) in my .inputrc caused the problems I'm not sure why. All ok now (Using minty.... problem was still there when I tried bash) Dom -----Original Message----- From: cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com <cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com> On Behalf Of Dominic Bragge Sent: Tuesday, 6 August 2019 12:32 PM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Sudden loss of "e" key in cygwin only I'm new on the list today I use generally use Cygwin for minimalist trawling through ascii dumps of databases using combos of grep awk printf etc I cannot type "grep" on cmd line in cygwin anymore as of this morning! It seems I have lost the lowercase "e" key. Uppercase works. All other keys seems to work. All keys work in windows (on same computer). Any clues anyone? Thanking you kindly Dom Sydney, Australia -- 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 -- 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 -- 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
