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RE: [Fwd: Strange-Dangerous behaviour in Cygwin]


Yo.. Keen! 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf
> Of Christopher Faylor
> Sent: Monday, 9 May 2005 2:06 PM
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Cc: Paul Eggert
> Subject: Re: [Fwd: Strange-Dangerous behaviour in Cygwin]
> 
> On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 11:44:53AM +0800, Carlo Florendo wrote:
> >Does this patch also fix the issue of arrow keys wrongly being enabled
> >like a text editor (e.g. during "rm -i <blah>", a user can navigate
> >through the screen.)
> 
> This is not a bug in coreutils.  You can get the same behavior in
> windows by typing "stty -ctlecho".  Cygwin doesn't implement the ctlecho
> stty setting (see man stty) so, the escape sequences associated with the
> arrow keys cause cursor motion rather than displaying, e.g., the up arrow
> key as ^[[A.
> 
> PTC.
> 
> cgf
> 
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