No on-screen response to keypress until press spacebar

No on-screen response to keypress until press spacebar

[fergus]

Currently experiencing a weird problem in Cygwin on W2000:

In a rxvt window, both " and ' behave in the same way: pressing either key
results in nothing on the screen, but pressing either key followed by
<space> results in the expected ' or " appearing, without the space.

Exploring the symptom within an application and using readkey(), it turns
out that ' and " initially return the correct codes 39 and 34 but under
circumstances not understood and therefore not describable these change
to -88 and -76, leading to syntax errors.

There are other strange behaviours, all similar and apparently related to
the above. I know I have seen this or similar symptoms recently described,
but cannot find it. Possibly in a X context, so I'm copying this to the
cygwin-xfree list too. Can anybody please point me to the thread (and, with
any luck, explanation and solution)?

Thank you.

Fergus

Re: No on-screen response to keypress until press spacebar

[Alexander Gottwald]

On Mon, 26 Jan 2004 fergus@bonhard.uklinux.net wrote:

> Currently experiencing a weird problem in Cygwin on W2000:
> 
> In a rxvt window, both " and ' behave in the same way: pressing either key
> results in nothing on the screen, but pressing either key followed by
> <space> results in the expected ' or " appearing, without the space.

This is the dead-key feature (or problem). Within X11 you can load the keymap
with the "nodeadkeys" option (but then you can only compose keys like à and â
with the compose key).

bye
	ago
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