From: Frank Eske <fne.bugzilla@gmail.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: xterm tab key (temporarily) locks keyboard
Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2020 14:07:00 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAETRzVL2Orhq0xStoxZCVsuMnbs_wmBX8cJAAjDu-+9Yo4NjWA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
If the tab key is entered as the first character running the bash shell on
an xterm terminal, the keyboard temporarily locks. Control-C writes ^C but
doesn't unlock it. This doesn't happen on Fedora. It also doesn't lock if a
space is typed first.
This occurs whether or not the xterm console is in an X environment.
For some reason I seem to accidentally do this a lot more often than I'd
like, so it's a real nuisance. I checked this mailing list for the last
four months and couldn't find " tab" or a useful "tab ", I find it
difficult to believe that I'm the first to see this, so maybe there's
something I changed that's making this happen. Any advice on what that
might be?
next reply other threads:[~2020-10-18 18:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-18 18:07 Frank Eske [this message]
2020-10-18 18:23 ` Brian Inglis
2020-10-19 9:49 ` Adam Dinwoodie
2020-10-21 17:45 ` Frank Eske
2020-10-21 17:55 ` Thomas Wolff
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