Case-Sensitive Meta-Key Input

[Chris Faylor]

On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 12:22:18PM -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I've noticed that some of my Vim mappings that use Meta-Key (in the 
>ESC-prefixed form) in combination with an upper-case letter are not 
>working. Apparently, if the shift key is down when I type 
>ALT-<someAlphaKey> the sequence read by the application always 
>contains a lower-case letter--in other words, the shift key's state 
>is ignored in generating the ESC- sequence.
>
>I've attached the obligatory "cygcheck -s -r -v" output as a plain text file.
>
>Is there a way to achieve case-sensitive Meta/ALT input that I'm 
>unaware of? Is there a reason why it's difficult to accomplish under 
>Cygwin? Is it just an oversight? A bug?

The code which deals with this is in fhandler_console.cc.

cgf

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