* Frank Jacobs (Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:49:18 -0500) > I've used the solution below so that I can go back in the completion > list in Bash via the SHIFT-TAB keystroke. However, I can only get it > to work when running in an xterm window (where $TERM=xterm). It > doesn't work in the plain-ol' Windows console window (where > $TERM=cygwin). > > The research that I've done has pointed me to termcap as a possible > suspect. Grokking termcap is going to take me a while. Before I go > down a possible dead end, does anyone have any comments on why > SHIFT-TAB doesn't work when running Cygwin/Bash in a Windows console > window? (By "doesn't work" I mean that SHIFT-TAB behaves the same as > pressing TAB by itself).
Because Windows Console returns the same keycode for shifted/unshifted and for the Ctrl key. You can easily test that with [Ctrl][V] or "od - c" (which are the standards tools to find out the key codes to be able to assign actions to them). This is not restricted to the Windows console. Console[1] and the Linux console behave the same. Thorsten [1] http://console.sourceforge.net/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
