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From: "Ken Reek" <kenreek1@gmail.com>
To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: RE: mintty will not accept the letter "e"
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2020 07:02:27 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <01b301d67ecd$d096d670$71c48350$@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d5daaaa7-72b3-faf1-7244-7dea2380f7fb@towo.net>

Found the problem! One of the FAQs instructed me to add the command

set completion-ignore-case on

to the .inputrc file. Seeing a "set" command I thought this file was similar
to .bashrc so I added the command

echo .inputrc

to the file (so I could be sure it was being read). After reading the bash
manual while awake at 2 this morning I found that the Readline syntax is
quite different.  I think this command was being mis-parsed as a key
binding.

Removing the offending line fixed the problem. Thanks to all who responded
with suggestions.

- Ken

-----Original Message-----
From: Cygwin <cygwin-bounces@cygwin.com> On Behalf Of Thomas Wolff
Sent: Saturday, August 29, 2020 5:04 PM
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: mintty will not accept the letter "e"

Am 30.08.2020 um 00:42 schrieb Ken Reek via Cygwin:
> Hi, all.
>
> All of the sudden, mintty won't accept a lower case "e" -- it just 
> dings when I try to type one. Upper case "E" is fine, as are all the 
> other letters. I'm no mintty expert, but I think the e key might have 
> been remapped somehow.
>
> Any ideas on how I can fix this? I've killed mintty and started it 
> again, and also rebooted my machine, to no avail. I'm on Windows 10. 
> Thanks for any help!
What a strange report - there is no way mintty could be causing such an
effect. Maybe you've somehow changed your keyboard mapping? What about other
letters? Other applications? Windows cmd console?
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-08-30 13:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-08-29 22:42 Ken Reek
2020-08-29 23:03 ` Thomas Wolff
2020-08-30  1:09   ` Ken Reek
2020-08-30  1:14     ` Yasuhiro KIMURA
2020-08-30  2:14       ` Ken Reek
2020-08-30  5:18         ` Thomas Wolff
2020-08-30 13:02   ` Ken Reek [this message]
2020-08-30  8:47 ` Vlado

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