Re: 'x' key not working in cygwin shell

[Peter Waltman <waltman at cs dot nyu dot edu>]

Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please <at> cygwin.com> writes:

> 
> On Tue, Jul 06, 2010 at 07:41:03PM +0000, Peter Waltman wrote:
> >This is a weird one.  I just updated cygwin on my windows 7 
> >machine, and now my 'x' (lowercase 'x') key isn't working.  
> >
> >The key works outside of cygwin, and when I type the uppercase 'X' 
> >it works, but just not the lowercase.  When I type a lowercase 
> >'x', I get nothing.
> >
> >No idea where to start with that one.  Any suggestions?
> >
> >To quit the window, I had to use the 'ctrl-d' key combo to shut it down.
> 
> Sounds like your .inputrc file has CRLF line endings.
> 
> cgf
> 
> 


That was it.  I'd updated my .inputrc to not use the system bell.
I copied the /etc/skel/.inputrc to my home directory and 
everything started working again.

Thanks!


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