From: Andy Koppe <andy.koppe@gmail.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Altgr+space doesn't print the expected character when using bash and bépo keyboard layout
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2011 09:20:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <BANLkTimx11UkiSz0L+jJ9Br2SPnk0_PHEg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <31918269.post@talk.nabble.com>
On 24 June 2011 09:56, menfin wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen-2 wrote:
>>
>> I didn't install bepo but I think I see what happens. At one point we
>> found that Cygwin didn't allow to generate ASCII NUL, which is usually
>> mapped to Ctrl+Space. The expression which special-cases this key
>> sequence just checked if the Ctrl key is pressed, but didn't check if
>> one of the Alt keys is pressed.
>
> However, I still doubt about your hypothesis : how do you explain the paste
> problem I described ?
I'd suspect the Windows console translates pasted strings into
equivalent keypresses, using the current keyboard layout.
Btw, you might also want to give mintty a try, where AltGr+Space
should work as expected already.
Andy
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-24 9:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-23 17:58 Thomas LIMIN
2011-06-24 7:02 ` menfin
2011-06-24 8:34 ` Corinna Vinschen
2011-06-24 8:56 ` menfin
2011-06-24 9:20 ` Andy Koppe [this message]
2011-06-24 12:13 ` menfin
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