On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > When I press down key, a 'B' charactor appears in the prompt line (the > > > line with a '$' at the most left) and cursor bar doesn't move. And when > > > I press up key, a 'A' appears instead. However, I still have some > > > chances (about 1 out of 10 tries) to move the cursor bar successfully. > > > > Right and left cursor insert a 'C' and 'D'... > > > > > I have tried exporting TERM=linux, but the annoying A/B's still remains. :( > > > > > > If I use the cygwin.bat directly form the start menu and export > > > TERM=linux, mc works very well. > > In this case, TERM should be set to "cygwin", though. Setting it to > "linux" doesn't make sense (yeah, I did that, too, once, but...) > > However, in case of using PuTTY, the question is, which terminal type > is PuTTY emulating? Is it actually "linux" or is it "vt100" or some > other term? You should find this in the PuTTY docs. Set TERM to the > appropriate value and you should be done. > > Corinna
I think PuTTY is behaving well. The problem lies somewhere in MC's key handling code or in the recent changes to terminal io in Cygwin. I'll try to see what I can do to track this down, *really*. In the meantime I'm almost ready to release the new version of MC which doesn't have this problem. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
