ERIC HO wrote: > I reported a couple of times of the bash loop problem before. But it seems > the problem could bot be duplicated > by others. > I use "mintty -" to start up a terminal session. > Today, I found out the problem. The loop is caused by set -o vi in my > .bashrc. After I removed that statement, > I can hit shift F12 without bash looping (reported by task manager). > If I start mintty without -, shift F12 just gives 4;2~ back. > Once I enter set -o vi, shift F12 hang and bash starts looping > With this information, I hope mintty users can duplicate this problem and > hopefully a fix could be available.
That would be a bash/readline problem, not a mintty problem. Shift+F12 in mintty sends the same keycode that xterm sends: '\e[24;2~'. I suspect though that it is simply a case of vi mode interpreting that keycode in some vi-ish way. A vi expert will have to pronounce on that. Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
