Re: mintty: Doesn't know about CTRL key

[Andy Koppe <andy dot koppe at gmail dot com>]

Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> Consider you have more than one mintty window open. ÂA typical use case
> for me is to have one shell open under UAC and the other one with admin
> rights to test to test something. ÂThen I want to close both ttys and
> test again with another Cygwin DLL.
>
> So I press Ctrl-D twice, without lifting my thumb from the Ctrl key.
> The first mintty window closes just fine. ÂThe second mintty window does
> not close. ÂInstead, it behaves as if I had pressed the 'd' key alone.
> So I have to BS and then press Ctrl-D again to exit the second shell.
>
> Apparently the second mintty window doesn't recognize the fact that the
> Ctrl key is still pressed. ÂThis does not happen with two console
> windows, neither in tty, nor in notty mode.

Fixed in svn. If you want to give it a try:

svn checkout http://mintty.googlecode.com/svn/branches/0.6 mintty-0.6
cd mintty-0.6
make

Andy

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