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RE: [Fwd: Strange-Dangerous behaviour in Cygwin]
- From: "Stuart Westbury" <swestbury at pulsemining dot com dot au>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Mon, 9 May 2005 14:56:06 +1000
- Subject: 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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