cygwin 3.1 pseudo console in PTY and break/ctrl-c handling

[Kevin Schnitzius via cygwin]

On Tuesday, February 18, 2020, 05:54:23 PM EST, Thomas Wolff <towo@towo.net> wrote: 

>> With 3.1.2-1:
>>
>> mintty -o "CA+F12:break"               =====>    ctrl-alt-F12 causes a break and kills notepad
>> mintty -o "c:break"                    =====>    ctrl-shift-c causes a break and kills notepad
>> mintty -o "C+c:break"                  =====>  FAIL -- ctrl-c kills native apps but notepad is not affected
>> mintty -o "CA+c:break"                 =====>  FAIL -- ctrl-alt-c kills native apps but notepad is not affected
>
> This would be mintty -o KeyFunctions='CA+F12:break' etc.
> The latter two are not valid mintty configuration; Ctrl is only 
> supported as a modifier for function keys and special keys, not letters. 
> This is unchanged with the cygwin version.

Ah, thank you.  That was the clue that I needed.

For those also having this problem:

mintty.exe -o "KeyFunctions=c:break" -o CtrlExchangeShift=true -

will propagate Ctrl-C to the non-native apps and kill them, imitating the behavior of 3.0.X Cygwin.

Now that I have played with this for a while, I am thinking that I like the new behavior better and I have assigned a new key to specifically kill native Windows programs instead letting the Ctrl-C do all the work (I am using Alt-F5 to do this).

Kevin


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