'x' key not working in cygwin shell

[Dave Korn]

On 07/07/2010 08:37, Csaba Raduly wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 9:59 PM, Christopher Faylor  wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> That's some impressive psychic debugging. Care to you explain it?
> 

  The impressive bit is that it's usually the 'e' key that fails when there
are CRLF line endings in .inputrc, but he still nailed it in one despite this
being a complaint about the letter 'x'!

  (As for the solution to the mystery, just see how many times it's come up in
the archives down the years....)

    cheers,
      DaveK


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