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Re: cygwin forgets CTRL key press
- From: Larry Hall <lh-no-personal-replies-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: Luke Kendall <luke dot kendall at cisra dot canon dot com dot au>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 22:22:06 -0400
- Subject: Re: cygwin forgets CTRL key press
- References: <20050915232537.1AC9E83C98@pessard.research.canon.com.au>
- Reply-to: Cygwin List <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
At 07:25 PM 9/15/2005, you wrote:
>Has anyone else noted that in vi (either in a plain Cygwin window or in
>an rxvt window, in an X session or not, also in xterm), that if you hold
>down the CTRL key and press keys at intervals (like F to page down
>through a file), and wait four seconds before another key press it's as
>if you don't have CTRL pressed at all? You have to release it and press
>afresh.
>
>The same applies to "more": hold CTRL down and press f, and it beeps at
>you to indicate that's invalid; still hold CTRL down, wait 4 seconds,
>then press f again, and it pages forward.
>
>This behaviour has been present for years, BTW, it's not new.
I've never seen this and cannot reproduce it locally based on the
procedure you described.
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