From: Ken Reek <kenreek1@gmail.com>
To: Thomas Wolff <towo@towo.net>
Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: mintty will not accept the letter "e"
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2020 19:09:03 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <DA8827FF-EA08-4037-A8AB-588135D71B72@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d5daaaa7-72b3-faf1-7244-7dea2380f7fb@towo.net>
Other apps are fine (like notepad) and I have swapped keyboards with no improvement. Bizarre! I forgot to mention that it won’t take an “e” even in a paste operation.
- Ken
> On Aug 29, 2020, at 5:05 PM, Thomas Wolff <towo@towo.net> wrote:
>
> 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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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-08-30 1:09 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 [this message]
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
2020-08-30 8:47 ` Vlado
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