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Re: [Bug] 1.3.18-1: Problem with arrow keys and rxvt/bash/mc
- From: Steve O <bub at io dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2003 00:40:52 -0600
- Subject: Re: [Bug] 1.3.18-1: Problem with arrow keys and rxvt/bash/mc
Marcel Telka wrote:
> Up/down/left/right arrows produces sometimes upper letters (for example
> 'D' while pressing left) instead of a cursor moving. To reproduce try run mc
> and press the arrow keys in blue mc's window (for moving cursor through
> files or moving cursor left-right in command line).
I'm able to reproduce this without bash, and with xterm instead of rxvt.
That narrows the problem down to some changes I made to the cygwin
tty code.
The change I suspect is one that writes characters one at a time to the
slave, instead of a bulk write of the entire buffer. Thus, it's
possible for the slave to read half of an escape sequence in a
race condition. I was under the impression that the slave, mc in
this case, should be able to deal with this condition, or am I mistaken?
Thanks for pointing out this test case.
-steve